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UK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill. (www.statewatch.org)

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The Ministry of Justice is developing a system that aims to ‘predict’ who will commit murder, as part of a “data science” project using sensitive personal data on hundreds of thousands of people.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago (7 children)

social rating here we go

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (6 children)

Was that a Black Mirror episode?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Probably. It's also reality in China.

[–] dubyakay 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

No? Why are you spouting BS? The Chinese Social Credit System is basically the same as the consumer credit reporting agencies in North America. Except the data is handled by an authorian state instead of for profit corpos.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It's also based on "law-abiding behavior" and "moral values" Source:

2.2. Finding the Social Credit System in a regulatory jungle

The broad range of policy goals projected on the system explains why what is generally translated as “social credit” is not a clearly and legally defined concept. Documents and discussions of the system contain a set of terms that range from financial creditworthiness (征信) to broader trustworthiness, law-abiding behaviour, or even moral values such as honesty and integrity (诚信/守信).

I don't know if all of that has been implemented, but that does seem to be part of the goals.

[–] dubyakay 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yes, it probably has its issues with vague wording. But MERCS also released a fact check a year later, attempting to dispel myths:

https://web.archive.org/web/20240108224112/https://merics.org/en/comment/chinas-social-credit-score-untangling-myth-reality

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Interesting. Thanks for the link!

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