Robocop will care about your normality


	Robocop will care about your normality

jmora

9-27-2009 5:13 PM

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privacy, security

jmora says:

With so much focus on outlier detection, so much information in the Web and the deeper analysis of this information that more powerful computers and algorithms enable, why not using it for spying citizens finding freaks criminals

The more capabilities computers have the better, but ethics will be a task exclusively human for a while.

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