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Daily Dashboard | The Future of Predictive Policing Related reading: OMB to issue government-wide AI risk mitigation directive

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Bloomberg reports on the possibilities of predictive policing. Jim Adler, former chief privacy officer at Intelius, an online provider of background checks, created software that sifts through criminal records, focusing on select criteria—including gender, eye and skin color, the number of minor offences and whether an individual has tattoos—all of which can allegedly increase the chances someone will commit a serious crime. Adler says his software is “not ready for prime time” but noted, “It’s important that geeks and suits and wonks get together and talk about these things…Because geeks like me can do stuff like this…it’s not our job to figure out if it’s right or wrong.” He added, “We often don’t know.” Future of Privacy Forum’s Jules Polonetksy, CIPP/US, said, “When we start using data to make decisions that imprison people and execute people and impact their freedom, that is a reason to be enormously careful.”
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