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Years ago, before the massive increase in #data harvesting of #PII I told people they need to keep a lid on their data.

I told them they don't know how it will be used in years to come, I said it could be used for profiling.

This is the same reason to not get a #DNA test

Well here it is. The worst #profiling has to offer.

This is #minorityreport level crime prediction.

You can bet this will be on the #police internal record, "Suspected likely murderer".

theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/a

The Guardian · UK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to killBy Vikram Dodd

The UK's murder prediction AI will create a dangerous, criminalising loop.

This tech repackages flawed police data as neutral. Then replicates itself.

The existing over-policing of racialised, low income and migrant communities will be hardwired into police operations.

We need #SafetyNotSurveillance

theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/a

The Guardian · UK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to killBy Vikram Dodd

Envelope containing suspicious brown powder sent to South Australian MP
By Josh Brine

Police are investigating a letter containing a suspicious substance that forced staff to evacuate Barker MP Tony Pasin's office.

abc.net.au/news/2025-04-09/sus

ABC News · Emergency services called to SA MP's office after suspicious substance found in letterBy Josh Brine
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Even after the boy was pulled from Barnard Elementary, Pannone was worried. So he routinely sent attendance counselors to the house—technically since the boy was not enrolled elsewhere, he was still a Barnard student. He also informed the police of his concerns.

#Police records indicate at least 2 calls to the house after the boy was withdrawn from school. One, on April 1, 2005, was placed by his classmates, who were afraid “that he may have died, because he has been out of school for so long.”

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But many in the community had feared for the boy’s safety for a long time.

For years before the man’s disappearance, his teachers, classmates, neighbors & his elementary school principal all believed he was suffering silently. They repeatedly called the Waterbury #Police & the #Connecticut Dept of #Children & Families [#DCF] to intercede for a child they said was so hungry that he ate from the trash & stole his classmates’ food.

#criminal#law#abuse