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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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[–] dubyakay 2 points 2 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!