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IJOP Integrated Joint Operations Platform China's Minority Report?
One of the most famous elements of Philip K. Dick's 1956 short story Minority Report is the idea of precrime, a certain prediction that a particular individual is about to commit a heinous criminal act.
China is using Big Data to develop its own version (disdaining precogs) of this called Integrated Joint Operations:
In the country's far western Xinjiang region, it's already happening, with the establishment of a system that critics call "Orwellian" in scope and ambition, and which is being used to place people in political re-education.
Called the Integrated Joint Operations Platform, or IJOP, it assembles and parses data from facial-recognition cameras, WiFi internet sniffers, licence-plate cameras, police checkpoints, banking records and police reports made on mobile apps from home visits, a new report from Human Rights Watch finds.
If the system flags anything suspicious – a large purchase of fertilizer, perhaps, or stockpiles of food considered a marker of terrorism – it notifies police, who are expected to respond the same day and act according to what they find. "Who ought to be taken, should be taken," says a work report located by the rights organization.
Via The Globe and Mail.
Barely seven months ago, a senior Chinese official promised that artificial intelligence could one day help authorities spot crime before it happens.
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