From the who-needs-precogs dept.:
Researchers are alleged to be using algorithms to analyse the information of thousands of people, including victims of crime, as they try to identify those at greatest risk of committing serious violent offences.
The scheme was originally called the “homicide prediction project”, but its name has been changed to “sharing data to improve risk assessment”. The Ministry of Justice hopes the project will help boost public safety but campaigners have called it “chilling and dystopian”.
To be fair, I said… “if you want” which obviously they don’t want to. That’s not healthy but that’s what they chose. You can hate on my language all you want but I am just trying to help a person.