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Israeli spyware vans infiltrate American streets and your phones
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US police SUVs equipped with Cognyte's FalcoNet devices can mimic cell towers, forcing nearby phones to connect and disclose location data. Courts are challenging the legality of mass phone tracking without consent, citing potential violations of Fourth Amendment privacy rights.
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- Praise: Machine learning that predicts crime locations isn't snake oil, but the real challenge lies in using those predictions effectively.
- Praise: From a technical standpoint, a well-structured model can uncover valuable correlations in crime data, given sufficient input.
- Concern: The marketing around this predictive policing software feels misleading, as knowing crime probabilities doesn't address the root issues.
- Concern: There are serious concerns about the ethical implications of granular predictive policing, including potential violations of reasonable suspicion.