The database includes detailed, but “de-identified,” information about people’s lives culled from conversations between police, social services, health workers, and more.
Police, social services, and health workers in Canada are using shared databases to track the behaviour of vulnerable people—including minors and people experiencing homelessness—with little oversight and often without consent.
Documents obtained by Motherboard from Ontario’s Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services (MCSCS) through an access to information request show that at least two provinces—Ontario and Saskatchewan—maintain a “Risk-driven Tracking Database” that is used to amass highly sensitive information about people’s lives. Information in the database includes whether a person uses drugs, has been the victim of an assault, or lives in a “negative neighborhood.”
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WNU Editor: I live in Canada and I am stunned to be reading this. I know people in Montreal who are currently conducting pilot projects with its Police Department on how to use behavioural analytics and other recognition software to identify crimes in real time (I am providing some technical advice). From these projects I know that the rules/laws/and privacy protections in Canada are very extensive, and such a program would not be permitted. But apparently the police departments in two provinces have found a way to run such a database, and I am sure they are implementing policies based on the results of these programs. I will update this story when I get more information.
Analytics has a name in the Democrat Party. It is called racial profiling.
ReplyDeleteI made my comments for the following reasons.
ReplyDelete1) The Israelis have a behavioural process for detecting hijackers and such for people boarding flight on El AL. As often as the P{LO and others try and as much as they that the Israelis, I do not see a lot of EL AL jets falling out of the sky.
They have had this for what? 2 Decades or maybe longer. So it works. Why do we not have it in the US? They usual suspects. The ACLU and those who tie nooses dripping with frozen bleach on a sub-zero night in the Windy City.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1300/J460v01n02_06?journalCode=wzse20
2) WNU should thank his lucky stars that he lives in Canada and not the US otherwise some nut job like former AG Eric Holder will use some pseudo analytics on him and cry disparate impact. Fortunately, Eric Holder is somewhat away from the levers of power, but there will always be another hack like him.
There is always the possibility of WU be extradited for consulting on the behavioural analytical approach. He could be sitting on the prison bus right next to Meng Wanzhou crossing the border into the US.
I mean people like Eric Holder are smart too. Then know critical race theory and disparate impact, which is taught at universities and used law enforcement in blue years.
Funny thing is that Eric Holder only look at the end results, incarcerations per 100,000 and not crimes committed by this or that group per 100,000 by this.
I mean if the general population commits crime at a rate of X per 100,000 but a group commits crimes at a rate 2X per 100,000, you would expect them to be jailed at a twice as high rate as the rest of the population. But not according to Democrats and other mouth breathers.