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tomm2thumbs

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Wed Nov 11, 2015, 07:49 AM Nov 2015

Police Tracking of 'Pre-crime' Activities -- Robocop on Steroids? - Scary Stuff Coming




From a bit earlier in the year -- figure it was worth a post.

Discussions of technology being marketed to seek out apparent 'pre-crime' activity, including drones, facial recognition, motion-tracking and other 1984-style police techniques. Given that much of this is publicly sold and available to companies, you can imagine the behind-the-scenes military technology that is even more powerful than what you see here.... no doubt already under widespread use.





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Police Tracking of 'Pre-crime' Activities -- Robocop on Steroids? - Scary Stuff Coming (Original Post) tomm2thumbs Nov 2015 OP
Because we all want to be tracked and scrutinized every moment of every day. Thanks Tomm, scary. nt Mnemosyne Nov 2015 #1
The mark of the devil. Not 666, but a big "M" n/t jtuck004 Nov 2015 #2
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