Statewatch | UK: Ministry of Justice secretly developing ‘murder prediction’ system
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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.

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.

  • FireWire400English
    15•11 days ago

    “I’m sorry; we predicted that, if we release you now, you’ll murder someone.”

    • @[email protected]English
      13•11 days ago

      That’s actually the idea. It’s not general precrime, it’s a decision support tool for predicting recidivism when deciding parole cases.

      That doesn’t mean it’s not on decidedly shonky ground statistically speaking.