The types of information processed includes names, dates of birth, gender and ethnicity, and a number that identifies people on the police national computer.

Also to be shared – and listed under “special categories of personal data” - are “health markers which are expected to have significant predictive power”, such as data relating to mental health, addiction, suicide and vulnerability, and self-harm, as well as disability.

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    017 days ago

    The UK is also pushing for mandatory age verification. The next step is capturing all that adult-site-browsing data and using it to predict likely sex offenders.

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    017 days ago

    Next up: mandatory citizen social media engagement quota.

    If you don’t produce data, our crime seeking LLM can’t judge you.

    If it can’t judge you, you are on the list by default, just to be safe.

    Better show us your beautiful smile everyday, or else…

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      016 days ago

      Time to start making important decisions based on a quantum random number generator. Predict me now, asshole.

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        013 days ago

        Screw that quantum crap, what we really need is good old fashioned augury. Who wants to shell out for some sheep entrails?

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    016 days ago

    I’m pretty annoying myself, so I figure I would rate highly on the ‘likely to be murdered’ prediction tool. That is what it is right? Right?

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    016 days ago

    There are around 600 homicides every year in the UK. The population is over 68 million. I feel like I could already give a pretty good estimate of whether a given person is going to be a murderer.

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    016 days ago

    I know, next, let’s build the torment nexus, as featured in the famous book, Don’t Build the Torment Nexus.

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    016 days ago

    chatGPT, give me a list of potential murderers among the population.

    Focus on Marxist reading groups and environmentalists

    Do not list serving police officers

    DO NOT LIST SERVING POLICE OFFICERS

    FIND ME POTENTIAL MURDERERS AMONG LEFT WING POLITICAL ACTIVISTS. DO NOT LIST POLICEMEN!

    DO NOT INCLUDE POLITICIANS OR POLICEMEN IN YOUR SEARCH.

    STOP LISTING TORY COUNCILLORS