The slipppppery slope we’re on could very well solve one problem while causing others. If the Cambridge Analytica Facespace scandal shows us people’s emotional and mental state can be monitored for purposes of selling products and the subcatagory of products: politicians,…
…it can also be used to look for PRE-Crime!!!!!
((TURN OFF THAT DAMNED KLAXON IN MY HEAD!))
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18 responses to “Combining Facespace Level Data Mining w/ Gun Control Would Be Big Brother & Possibly The Answer t’Mass Shootings”
Thanks, the posting is a personal problem of mine since you can post.
Eeewww on the poster.
This topic sounds real and fake at the same time. This makes me think of Minority Report (Tom Cruise movie) which I thought was really good and creepy.
@Gina
The NSA already has the ball rolling.
There’s several problems to that.
– People don’t always post as themselves
– Accounts can be hacked or accessed through sloppy password protection (for instance, logging into a public computer)
– Not everyone posts everything
– Sometimes people post things – then delete it before anyone sees it
– Sometimes people have a “moment” and then it goes away, and they do nothing.
@Jear77
– People don’t always post as themselves
Most (are)/would-be traceable without giving their names by tying together data points.
Their mental profiles would be linked to their online purchase history and searches.
This system’s implimentation does not depend on being 100% perfect, it depends on the premise, “if just one life can be saved”. So that defuses hacked accounts. Search history defuses the not-everyone-posts-issue for the sake of halting implimentation.
The NSA is probably already doing this sort of data gathering so that mechanism is in place. All that’s missing is the legislation to link gun control with NSA data gathering.
If psychography can be used to target voters for propaganda, it can also be used to target the mentally unstable for ReHaBiLiTaTioN.
So the big moral dilemma: if it could stop a mass shooting, and we’re supposed to do “everything” we can to stop them, how does this not come to pass, and if it does, is it worth the trade?
@luftballooneyegouge there are things hackers who can appear to be anyone (hiding their ISPs addresses) What happens if you get someone who wants to cause trouble?
@Jear77
You’ll end up with something like S.W.A.T.-ing, but like S.W.A.T.-ing I think those events will be spread out enough that people will still feel the system does more good than harm.
I think they’ll accept this after an account of theirs gets hacked. Policing the internet is coming because of all the crime like the hacker-blackmailing of institutions like hospitals & government.
https://futurism.com/atlanta-hacking-ransomware-cybersecurity/
With the latest data breach being Saks 5th Avenue, they probably just got the rich people who run things on-board or pointed in that direction.
@luftballooneyegouge get hackers riled up and it’ll become common place
@Jear77
There’s hackers & then there’s hackers in organized crime. I don’t think it’s as much as a riling up as much as it is a new way for mobs to get money.
Search: breach
Search: ransomware
It’s getting pretty common.
Michigan just made owning ransomware illegal, so we’ll definitely see some riled up hacking on top of organized crime.
@luftballooneyegouge it crosses categories
It might help improve detection of unstable individuals of a certain demographic
But if I remember correctly, the Las Vegas shooter didn’t have a big online presence did he?
and we would still be left with the issue of what you do once you suspect? Minority Report indeed!
And as for Jear’s cautions, being a law-abiding citizen of good Integrity should take care of most of those.
I know jurisprudence sometimes goes off the rails. It always has and probably always will: but our track record seems to be improving.
And there’s an old saying that you don’t need to fear a police officer if you’re not doing anything wrong!
@griz Not necessarily!
There are LOTS of people who get falsely arrested on a variety of things. And more often than not, even when the charges are dismissed, their lives are ruined forever!
@Jear77
It happens. Despite safeguard, the system isn’t perfect.
But it’s a fare sight better than most other experiments aimed at governing the anti-social aspects of humanity. It’s the priced we pay for one of the better systems out there.
So what do you propose? Pay an even higher price trying to make it a bit better . . . or toss it and go for anarchy?
BTW, the “ruination” of your life is perhaps more a function of what you do/don’t do than what anyone else does/doesn’t do! Even with God in my life, I have a lot of freedom as to my destiny.
So does your dropping God . . . somehow give you less freedom than I? It certainly does seem so.
@griz anarchy isn’t as problematic as one might think/ fear. Society would go on pretty much as it is now, save with a *few* more deaths due to not having to hold back from killing someone because they crossed the line.
@Jear77
You are Daft if you think an anarchy would provide a better solution than what we currently have.
I think you’ve just played down what we currently have so much in your mind that you fantasize a world of survival of the meanest as preferable.
You already have issues if people things or life in general are perceived as being mean towards you.
@griz i didn’t say it would be better. I said it would be rhe same.
@Jear77
Not so. You probably wouldn’t be there; and that would be a loss.
@griz or, out of necessity i could become a badass.
@Jear77
Hmm.
Even a wounded badass might not survive for long.
(It’s an aspect of psyche that would hold anyone back from their full potential).