“Police need oversight, not because they are bad people, but because maintaining the appropriate balance between liberty and security requires constant vigilance by engaged citizens,” concludes The Economist. Policy, due process and public opinion are lagging behind the uses of these new technologies. ![]() This is not illegal,” reports The Economist. “If you drive in a city anywhere in the developed world, ANPRS are almost certainly tracking you. Law enforcement actions have become less visible to the public, but new technology is being widely used across the world. The courts generally give citizens protection from police entering a home, however, “the law on people’s digital presence is less clear.” The laws were written in the time of post offices and landlines. Privacy laws have not kept pace with technology. “Uber filed for a patent on AI technology that can determine a potential passenger’s level of inebriation based on movements of his or her smartphone, as well as location near bars,” reports The Guardian. If he drives, police cars, streetlights and car parks equipped with automatic number-plate readers (ANPRS) that can track all movements and facial recognition software will confirm his identity.Įven your smartphone will snitch on you. They can seize the suspect’s phone and bypass its encryption. To capture this data, police no longer need to follow or stake out a suspect nor get a warrant. Smartphones track and record where people go or whom they talk to and their apps reveal personal information on what they search, buy, read and watch. Technology has changed the relationship between information and crime in two ways: people create massive amounts of data and current laws have not kept pace with this change, reports The Economist. The Economist magazine anticipates the future in the technology report “Justice Data Detectives.” These new technologies allow criminal-justice systems unparalleled surveillance capacity of vast amounts of data. ![]() A tech-tidal wave is hitting the criminal justice system, transforming faces into license plates and your smart phone into a snitch.
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