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Effect that our computers have placed you on the hit list of the Police Department now since should you decide to continue to engage in criminal activity we should know were gonna charge you and we will prosecute you to the fullest extent of the law. I guess we was associated or carefree and disposed to being in the streets or out as an aerial go but weve put through a test and we both came out the most like telephone advantage. Now yet again i ask you how can i be dangerous for smoking weed i should know who does this is. The time line shows all the criminal activity that their persons associate with if you see on the bottom those are all interactions hes had with the police either as an arrest is a contact as a victim and with it so you know who we hang with you know where hes been everything to do with him that weve documented through Police Interaction scroll down please were 1st got that this shows this is what theyll compile and put together and get back out into the field within 15 minutes so if this person is the victim of a shooting or of Violent Crime theyll pull of their its got their criminal history. Thats associate so everything. Before it was all the criminal history involved with that individual so theres probably maybe about 2530 arrests that you saw on the subject the associates people that theyre documented is having an affiliation with thats again a pretty comprehensive list certainly we can actually do even like a link analysis to be able to show how that network interacts. The idea that you could essentially connect all of the data streams that government collects in different ways everything from you know your arrest records to your contacts to your foreclosures to your Mental Health records to your social benefits and put them in a particular computer database and then be able to do blank analysis where you connect a phone number from all the different sources and go out you know several links and be able to see the world is something you would never imagine that is technologically possible now. Lets summarize. Firstly they are quite serious about fighting crime with algorithms. So i completely Robert Mcdaniel is on the wrong side of the algorithm. Thirdly apart from its developers nobody knows how the algorithm behind the heat list works fourthly in 2016 statistically 2. 0876 people are killed every day in chicago. I come home on good enough for its. Effect on the budget place and you know. Ive got a yard the same place on the scaffold on its a good walk. If. I dont those contacts to. Meet up once in full. Swing my neck. And the fukushima just as you dont know what else they pull off an actor paul active. For the next 2 teeth. Soon i think it was. They have like a ranking system which shows how many times more likely are they than the general population to be prone to violence so all robert had a rating of 215. 00 which meant hes 215. 00 times more likely to be prone to violence but robber wasnt i mean that paled in comparison to a number of other people on the list there are a lot of people on that list who are more than 500 times more likely to be party to violence and again thats not because of their criminal history thats because of the people theyve been arrested with. You know this is whats really frightening is that there are companies now scoring every subsides that informations out there its not really out there whether a felon or not but it is out there and so what the police here are doing is theyre literally just purchasing information other people already have now that scored society of course is frightening of course its not just a privacy sense that youre giving out this information its about a government owning this information right its a different situation in america were pretty willing to let Big Companies like google and apple know pretty much everything about ourselves more more reluctant to have a government its a good line to draw whats happening here. There is this sort of data convergence where youre really seeing private companies collecting this information and then essentially selling it or offering it through Different Services to Law Enforcement and people do know that information in the police dont have it the private companies do have it and thats part of where we are now as technology is collecting as much information about us as i can. I. Like click safed. We deliver the beta which generates information about us that circulate on the internet until the next update creates yet another dataset and so on. Data mining endlessly. Somewhere fairly lost at the bottom of the digital food chain there are people like Robert Mcdaniel. Privacy what privacy. 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Whenever someone fills out an application for obama theyre going to be providing certain information. The be where software they Access Databases Financial Institutions the courts. Any type of baloney institutions be aware has the ability to access all of those databases simultaneously so when a call comes into our dispatch center and it is categorized as a life threatening call or e. In progress crime then and there is an address attached to the v where software automatically searches all of these databases and then provides the operator in the Real Time Crime Center information specific to that address people that have lived their lives there their cell phone numbers prior addresses associates the other piece that allows for is to Research Social media and and to gather any type of information that might be in there in terms of threats. The theory behind the where makes a lot of sense if i was a Police Officer on the street and i was entering a house and i dont know who lived there i dont know all the information i could but the problem is if its source through these data brokers there just isnt really much accuracy so you might be arriving at a house and the address alerts as a dangerous place that may be so many lives there maybe the dangerous person moved the problem is accuracy and if you ever got in the wrong catalog in the mail and well why did someone send me a catalog i dont have children why do i have it thats the inaccuracy that comes along with these data brokers right they dont need to be perfect because what theyre really doing is trying to sell products to people. Well if the algorithms used in the private sector allow them to become more successful in targeting their audience to sell product then we should take advantage of that same algorithm that allows us to become more successful involved foresman in preventing crime. In the case of the beware software i think the bad far outweighs any potential good and i can see how in a perfect world. It could help make Police Officers safer the problem is. Nothing is perfect as one of the things that the Software Companies says that it looks at are postings on social media such as facebook and twitter there was one woman in another city who was flagged in the software for making comments on twitter about rage rage has a very specific meaning in terms of anger or violence but the raise she was talking about was a card game called rage that had nothing to do with violence or aggression or anything like that yet she was flagged as being a possible problem because she had some of these messages about rage and what if someone is making some answer about that they dont trust the police is that going to flag them as being a potential problem so there are too many opportunities for the computer to get it wrong and if they get it wrong coupled with a Police Department that already is much more likely than other Police Departments to shoot citizens thats a recipe potentially for disaster. Taking up one question again. Why are we forcing these technologies upon ourselves. The silicon valleys of this world are making a lot of money with them ok. We the users have enjoyed the comforting google and find and thats it. What if the internet fed by the permanent feedback of its users already had its awakening. What if it developed its own. Needs and interests it was always leading us to more convenient technologies because we pay for it with private data. What are freedom was just an illusion. Metropolitan Police Territorial Police Working together for a safe on the. Make of. The much Pollution Police service and one of his own is all committed to me just enough and gain current information indicates to you have or associated to it gang days in the Current Issue involving credit and do not stop. If you involved in crime and do not stop you may be a target but at least on agencies under a piece of legalization would join and press you may be convicted of a crime and prison for just being present when a serious crime is committed or even with those persons who commit a crime and you dont. You will need to change unless. We can help you to do this for. You can speak in confidence to a Police Officer and or any of the organizations listed at the end of this no i would encourage you to speak to them as they can they hope you break any gang links you know since you are a commander of. The doctrine join in front was actually brought in over 200 years ago to stop people encouraging jews so if 2 people judging whether its by pistols will swords this seconds or that support them they can be done full join and spies if someones killed. So that doctrine is not actually lol it is doctrine adopted by the colts but is has an operational and tactical implication in terms of the matrix. 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Boxer downed in reining in drone in the strait of hormuz south africas corruption watchdog has found president several ram oppose a deliberately misled parliament the allegations center around the Campaign Donation by the company. To run opposes 2017 president ial campaign the president denied knowledge of the 35000. 00 donation when asked about it in Parliament Last year meanwhile former president jacob zuma agreed to continue giving evidence at a corruption inquiry earlier he refused to do so saying he was being treated unfairly the commission is looking into allegations of corruption in government and state owned companies. Turkey has launched airstrikes on the kurdish region of Northern Iraq in response to the killing of one of its diplomats airstrikes targeted a p k k stronghold where the killer is thought to a fled turkeys deputy consul general was shot dead on wednesday the netherlands top court has upheld an earlier ruling the country is partly liable for the deaths of 350. 00 Bosnian Muslim men killed at the struggling its a genocide in 1995 the Supreme Court at the hague said Dutch Peacekeeping forces could have allowed the men to remain at the un safe haven base in during the war but instead the men were expelled which led them to be captured by bosnian serb forces police have identified 41 year old shinji as the main suspect in an arson attack and scotto city 33 people were killed after a fire swept through an Animation Studio on thursday its japans worst incident of mass killings in nearly 2 decades. Its back to free crime now. For him. To get closer to the sea altogether ever see boy scouts are always going to places together. The term precrime comes from this movie a minority report in which a prediction is being made about something an individual has not yet done but is going to view and a preemptive arrest is made of someone before they form. The london my tricks works like the heat lost in chicago identify individuals connect them detect patterns and social networks calculate the statistical possibilities. Score people issue warnings keep an eye on. Busy im doing an end to gang projects in the local area here in east london i have clients who are saying i have never been involved in a gun but the real issue is the subjectivity to get people on the criminal Intelligence System the trim system and then how that then goes into the matrix to then associate people in certain kinds which are questionable so that the thing is whos checking the data entry whos checking those offices who commit those they to entries. I dont see myself as a guy well not a gang member among my dang number you know and said im just all caught on the support of this so. It was a part of the socalled was always going to send the dog that old you know her name. And always will but. If you are not in the game there as you were community are you from or from the answer community ok those are body snatchers of you know those are folk want to ask you a phone how can you tell me what i am because of my address because of our state is probably why i can only afford to leave that makes no sense i just honestly theyve got a job to do and they want to do it if they had a brief crime if they had to make criminals if they got to see here convince you to a criminal and provoke you to do it they are doing actually i had a friend killed a couple like couple months couple weeks prior to that so i have only partly i can say is a they david in a gang made. Now i guess thats how i got to believe because me and a person that was murdered was so close but other than that i actually dont know the legacy im the a nun doesnt excuse. They havent told us what the algorithm is that theyre using to identify people they havent told us what that data is and theres no way to get off the lists that were up once youre on it so that oh thats scary to a lot of people its frightening to not know how the list is created or to be able to get all that on the back end and they can say that you know were using meth for use in science is a way to do it math and science arent always right. If you use a full field in commercial recipes and struggle. But i just pick t. V. Deceived and you can thank you both and stern says that avoiding the 2nd place you can ski for that you feel as if the instructor be the collector for the both of you must admit its for you to most welcome. All data is biased. Police Department Data Incident Data has the potential to be biased in a number of different ways and we cannot eliminate us but we can potentially offset it to some extent i incorporate in other data we have a number of different components of the software one is either as a component that someone can use at a Police Station the 2nd component of the software is a mobile version of the software that can be in a car or other vehicle on the Police Officers able to see as the car moves around are they inside one of these Priority Mission control areas. Is actually using the g. P. S. From the tablet to track our location and as we enter boxes is going to update the display with information about them so we actually are just driving through a box right now which is about robberies and if this was our final destination we would start patrolling for about 10 to 15 minutes in this area is still relatively unlikely for any crime to happen in that location at that time its just that this is the highest risk location amongst all the choices that we have available and so its the best place for the officers its been that free time. While we are positioning an officer in a particular place which means that theyre going to be paying attention to that place that should not give them the authority to assume that anyone in that place is a criminal unless they see something thats actually criminal in nature. So its about a point but not a good mother instead of simply doing their good mood. Bugging me did you do to me when are you going to meet the people in the. Doing the. Job of a new teacher did and then it was good to make it but only in some respects similar some from little to. No one thats the law is even mentioning that. I thought and said do you want to trust in a machine or. In jamaica myself. Thats what im going. To show you that skillful skill if it. I dont get unstuck. So see those in the most consequential is thats going to cut. The building up and thats all he meant an older look im going to let go of the movie on a good day but. We have generally been very cautious about any incorporating any kind of person centric data into our models we believe theres a number of substantial problems with this whether thats a Privacy Concern or just that accuracy of the actual model and. Were not using Surveillance Data and harms lab i think thats a key question that our society is going to be asking and under what circumstances is it reasonable to take advantage of that kind of data. Big data we the users and our privacy well. Who could have imagined years ago that good can our with mcleish calculate what i will do tomorrow. Simulate tenuously we activate things our purse hyland until now everything that once was quiet starts communicating with the world and sending our data to the internet my tooth brush my t. V. Set the chip under my skin my fitness tracker the toys of our children. I was not aware of these kind of technologies quote unquote being implemented by the police etc its not particularly surprising because the Technological Developments in terms of policing bit domestically or globally is developing all the time and its something that we all privy to we can all see it on our t. V. Screens especially when it comes to Foreign Policy and conflicts the rest of conducting abroad i dont feel about it im really concerned because i work with a lot of young people and young adults and children who are or have been or will be unfortunately in the shorts and most likely to be involved in the criminal Justice System because they come from troubled backgrounds or theyre working class and the black people so if you can use some kind of Predictive Technology and software its not going to predict anything but thinking positive for them but if you want to make Money Software they have algorithms to give to the police just its its its indicative of how awesome sightsee is is progressing away from human solidarity and human approach to just squeezing people as hard as you can in any and every which way. And. Thats one of them and. Then theres a dozen times over that you know that this one camera over there is a. Yeah. And then theres another camera just but there you see it. As a remote as last year in the park so what this time is the yes theyre not being used to so much as then obviously theyve got some kind of here on purpose really hit the ball to save people or were doing something there and if you look at these cameras theyre not the kind of ordinary c. C. T. V. Cameras i think i definitely think is the kind of books attached to you see think about it 3 murders happening here you know right as kids play its crazy one isnt my sort of place frost really lovely little thing here and thats one more instance happened here when they do in this light and they all point to point that you think about how small this park is and how many cameras there are theyve got full coverage of it. And so you know where these gun murders a happening is with theyre not able to prevent them though the intelligence they have. Sting ray triangulation to this kind of stuff im not surprised that its on this scale and i think theres actually we probably dont know most of you know the kind of surveillance abilities they have i think its interesting that maybe some of the way that they experiment on gangs in the black community is also. Be used in political protest and Political Organization as a way of so pioneering in developing it i mean of course its just reflective of the way in which a new piece may be target black now soon it comes to crime and how theyre disproportionately stopped and searched you know. We in london and the other parts of this country our Place Service so youve got to know what that means means accountability and transparency and all of your processes and practices now i challenge that when i was in the met when i was chair of the black police association. I also gave evidence to theres inquiries that said that this was institutionally racist because of the way in which they conduct themselves now the matrix for me isnt on the form of institutional racism it is racial profiling it is unaccountable and as far as im concerned that has to be a way in which you can get off this system whether its the matrix the d. N. A. Database you know it got to highlight you know a process where people believe that the Police Service can be held to account. Mad tricks strategic subject list no fly list selleck t. List terrorist watch list once on the list always on the list because the computer says so because due to the algorithm nobody is directly responsible because there is no regulator procedure against the errors of the machine because lets be honest nobody cares about what consequences the decisions of a program have for the life of Robert Mcdaniel are smart. 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I think ultimately theyre going to be is one step ahead theyre going to know exactly how to batten down or how to limit for example thousands of people attending a demonstration or less just cut off all their own vice theres just no leg imprinted in social media less effect the algorithm to who is sending the messages whos post in the right is no for us we use it with the intention of we dont care were going to they going to know anyway so we organize openly but practically i think is a really worrying thing because we have no way someone is a well theyre doing and we have no idea of the scope in which the powers they have and the technology they have in terms of massive balance in databases. At some point i have stopped thinking about who might know when and who might story what about me why and since when. 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If policing is going to use software to predict what these people do in the future its assuming that certain people with a certain history are going to do certain things and thats just not necessarily the case because humans can change according to what support i want muslim decisions they make according to that support but again its a metaphor for that but its also its its it what policing is policing is not preventative its no its no its not just in any kind of way and so its just that as a punishing mechanism as a criminalizing mechanism and as a punishing mechanism. How did so they start off a couple months ago a full 100 but now skip to 1500 thats a big no because made 11 limo crims right there so now you who is the good folk is it good for the street was it good for the police you got more criminals who are good you got most cases to solve you guys who think youve got more problem. See my story might not mean that nobody because it wasnt you. But what about when a guy shows him when he got your daughter you know jail you know when hes you now its a ball. Now everybody want to make you say my ok lets kill it on a face nobody has really come i can only go. So right now i think people are willingly giving up this information right not just what youre giving up on the internet but as we move into a world of the internet of things your smart house will reveal when youve left the day when you take your shower you know what temperature your bath is your television can listen to you your car will be able to monitor where youre going if you have like an on star system tells you where to go your cell phone knows all of those things and what youre doing and the conversations going on like were just giving up this data to private companies in a way were not really thinking about the consequences were not thinking about what these data trails mean and for Law Enforcement you could see just how valuable that information would be why do you drink cold coffee in a hot car surveilling some guy when you can just use Internet Things to track them all the way through right this is the new world and right now the policy makers and even the lawyers havent really thought through the consequences havent figure out how to forth and adapt how do privacy laws to death how do laws so we have about Telephone Technology pli in a world where suddenly your watch is talking to the world and giving them your heart beat and and the rest of it are we havent figured that out yet and its important i think to ask these questions now i think were at the very beginning of a very Big Conversation about what we should do with this new data. 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Hello im sam is a this is the news hour live from coming up in the next 60 minutes a cotton gibraltar extends the detention of an Iranian Oil Tanker out while to her on denies the u. S. President s planes u. S. Downed a drone. South africas government watchdog says the president deliberately. Misled parliament over a Campaign Donation. The dutch Supreme Court rules the netherlands is partly liable for the killings of hundreds of Bosnian Muslims and 995. 00 struggling its a genocide and yet again the latest from the 2nd round of open championship plus. When we can finagle as the country gears up for an africa cup of nations final against algeria. A cotton gibraltar has allowed an extension to detain captured Iranian Oil Tanker grace one for 30 days the authorities there with the help of britains role marine said seize the vessel after suspecting it of carrying oil to syria syria is under International Sanctions that ran rejects the accusations that those who joins us now live from toronto any reaction there from iranian officials to the extension. Not yet sami but its not likely to go down very well this has been a very very sore subject in these im a public all levels of government have called on the British Government to release this tanker assume its possible the iranians have hired an attorney to pursue the matter and theyve said that they will do everything they can to get this tanker back now the grace one is a super sized oil tanker that was carrying 2000000 barrels of Iranian Crude Oil in the strait of gibraltar when it was seized on july 4th by the british navy the iranians have denied that it was actually heading to syria but they havent clarified where this tanker was heading they say that this was an act of maritime piracy and we even heard from Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on wednesday who said that the actions carried out by the vicious British Government will not go on responded. To stay with us for a 2nd because of being other developments with iran the country saying all its drones of return to their bases dismissing washingtons claim it destroyed one of them on thursday President Donald Trump said the warship u. S. S. Boxer down the new rainy and drone busy in the strait of hormuz trump called it a defensive action because the drone came within a 1000 yards of the vessel and ignored calls to stand down hes calling on other countries to condemn to her arm and work with the u. S. To protect shipping in the gulf so any more clarity at this point of how there are 2 very different narratives over whether in the rainy and drone went down borneo. Well sami according to the revolutionary guard Media Relations department they released a statement on friday saying that the claims made by u. S. President donald trump are quote ridiculous they say that the iranian drone was carrying out a routine Surveillance Mission in the strait of hormuz when it captured some footage of the this u. S. S. Boxer vessel and the revolutionary guards has said that they will soon release the footage that was captured by this drone on this mission and they will prove that it returned safely back to its base in iran and therefore disproving the u. S. Statements that this strong was shot down by the americans all right thanks so much. Lets get the reaction from the u. S. Now kimberly joins us live from washington d. C. So whats been the reaction from the u. S. Led to this. Well as the as a ron tries to and works to disprove u. S. Claims the u. S. Is standing by the statements made by the u. S. President donald trump the belief is that the United States military did in fact destroy the drone drone that it was brought down through electronic jamming reportedly and it is notable that the United States is maintaining that this drone in fact came within 900 metres of the u. S. S. Boxer why is this important while the u. S. Boxer is part of sort of a larger contingent that had been brought into the area to in the words of the United States deter iranian threat so this is significant is being viewed as a significant escalation of tensions from the standpoint of the United States it is calling once again on its allies to condemn iran to protect its own ships in this very important commercial waterway and also reiterating that it has the right to defend its personnel and interests in the region now this is significant given the fact that you have to remember just one month ago sammy the United States was considering potentially a strike on iran as a result of the downing of a u. S. Drone so in the midst of all of this the United States continues to consider potentially even more tough economic sanctions and weve also have those very strong words of caution by the treasury secretary steve minutia into the United States partners particularly in the European Union caution and not to extend any sort of financial lifeline to iran that operating in the u. S. Financial system means complying with those sanctions so a very strong words from the United States will it continues to maintain that it has a right to defend its interests and that views this as a significant escalation or a time so much can be how can that. Well turkey says its warplanes and drones of hit multiple targets in the kurdish region of Northern Iraq the air strikes were in response to the murder of one of its diplomats on wednesday a gunman shot and killed turkeys vice consul general and 2 of the people turkish and iraqi authorities meanwhile are looking for 27 year old muslim diag is believed to have joined the Kurdistan Workers Party or p k k in 2014 the group is deemed a terrorist organization by turkey and the United States thats what i am has more from below on the investigation. Investigators now have some answers regarding who assassinated turkish diplomat awesome on costa and why the shootings which took place in erbil restaurant on wednesday and killed a total of 3 people were all caught on security cameras now police are widely distributing a photo of a man they say is their primary suspect hes one of a team of 3 people that investigators say with inside the restaurant to execute this hit his name is muslim dag he is 27 years old hes from a car turkey its a kurdish region in the south of turkey sources say that he joined the Kurdistan Workers Party or p k k in 2014 the p. K. K. Is an armed group its deemed a terrorist organization by turkey and the United States this morning turkey conducted air strikes at a peak a k. Training camp on the outskirts of a town here called more they believe that dad was there 4 times last week and that he had trained there and that there was a possibility that they may have he may have fled there after the shootings all vote the p. K. K. Is being pinpointed by investigators its important to note that on wednesday hours after the shootings a spokesman with the military wing of the p. K. K. Denied involvement the group is very big and has been described as decentralized a political analyst tells us one thing is certain the motivation of this is sas the nation is intended to destabilize the relationship between turkey and the Kurdistan Regional government. Now south africas corruption watchdog has found president sir im opposed to deliberately misled parliament the allegations center around a Campaign Donation by the company boss sasser to ram opposers 2017 president ial campaign the president denied knowledge of the 35000. 00 donation when he was asked about it in Parliament Last year Investigator Office known as Public Protector explain the evidence against the president i have come to the conclusion there is a marriage to the allegations relating to this suspicion of Money Laundering as alluded to in the complaint launched and in his explanation that he didnt know the little nations he acted it didnt see actress that ernest and this is it means also that he was very it to me involved in speaking to some of that dont lets me you are former president jacob zuma has agreed to continue giving evidence of corruption inquiry he had earlier refused to do so saying he was being treated unfairly the commission is looking into allegations of corruption in government and state owned Companies Just a short while ago zuma addressed his supporters and said a conspiracy is being that against him by 3 intelligence organizations. You know for. Your happiness and strongmen or for things that are happening for. Sure. But he did that. And destroy it. And some of it. For me the mirror has the latest from pretoria. President himself in a very difficult position now that the report by the Public Protector was released that says that he violated the executive ethics code in that he received money that he didnt declare but also that he misled parliament when the answered questions around the Campaign Donation Public Protectors said that he should have declared these amounts and that when he spoke saying that the money in fact to a foundation of his sons. He then came back to say that that money in fact was received by his campaign is also an issue of potential Money Laundering in that money was donated to his campaign that money was then channeled to war rather was channeled from a trust to his campaign and then channeled through to other beneficiaries the Public Protector once this investigated by the National Prosecuting authority shes also said that she wants this report referred to Parliaments Ethics Committee Ethics Committee is likely to investigate further but this also doesnt prevent members of parliament who are perhaps pushing for a motion of no confidence in this comes at a time when the former president jacob zuma is sitting before a commission of inquiry into corruption and the narrative in south africa south africans are concerned around to the extent of corruption not only is a film of president being questioned around