New Pre-Crime Computer Model Deployed in CaliforniaKevin Samson Our Orwellian world is beginning to look nostalgic compared to what is in production. Neuroscientists in 2010 stated that they know you better than you know yourself. Meanwhile, it is being estimated that computers know to a 93% accuracy where you will be, before you make your first move. It is based on this last factoid that a sociologist at University of California, Riverside has been working with the Indio Police Department to offer a computer dragnet that can predict where burglaries are going to happen in the future. A reduction in crime is of course a welcome event, especially as America outdoes even itself in nearly all areas of violence. However, even though computers have been touted as somehow superior to their human counterparts, when it comes to surveillance and policing we have seen little but horrendous abuse. Robert Nash Parker is a professor of sociology who has been working with Indio police (city pop. 75,000) to implement a computer model that predicts, by census block group, where burglaries are likely to occur. The mention of Big Data should sound a big alarm. Big Data should more properly be calledBig Databases. As we have seen, government agencies are collecting an unprecedented amount of personal data across the spectrum. The NSAs staggering volume of collection will only increase with the full roll out of its $2 billion Bluffdale, Utah data center and what it currently has on all of us continues to be revealed through Edward Snowden and other whistleblowers. Its near total information awareness. We also have learned recently of a de facto pre-crime program intended for use by the TSA, as they access databases to do full background checks on travelers beginning from the moment they purchase a ticket. Information will reportedly include tax history, car registration, employment history and more. (Source) This merger between collection of data and application based on data analysis is at the heart of the Big Data program, which is why these seemingly small-scale stories like the Indio Police Department need to be highlighted. Its all part and parcel of a very large overall agenda. This data collection initiative is one taking place across the board in our largest federal agencies and departments such as the National Institutes of Health, Department of Defense, National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, the U.S. Geological survey, and DARPA. As government data collection ramps up, the Obama administration through the Office of Science and Technology Policy has announced a $200 million investment in taking this information from data to decisions. (Source) The Department of Defense is merged with the overall initiative, and goes a step further by investing $250 million annually across military departments in support of truly autonomous systems that can maneuver and make decisions on their own. DARPA is listed as essentially continuing its research into areas of human-computer interaction. We are witnessing nothing short of the next stage of evolution for the scientific dictatorship, as it moves from total surveillance and information awareness toward implementing its permanence throughautonomous systems that will collectivize all human experience into data sets that can be tracked, analyzed and immediately acted upon to affect social structures, economies, war, science, health and education. But it all starts with a small, seemingly innocuous local system. We should know by now that it is standard practice to introduce the concept of something as extreme as pre-crime to thwart that which frightens us most: terrorism and violent crime. But then it will trickle down to petty crime, tax and financial crimes, and eventually anything the State deems to be a potential threat. As near-conclusive evidence of this, the person in charge of the overarching program is John P. Holdren, Obamas science Czar and admitted authoritarian eugenicist. For those who would like to live in this coming prison system, believing they will be safer: can you name one actual brick-and-mortarprison in America that you would feel comfortable residing in? Dont we naturally dread prisonfor the simple reason that it is a place of punishment, violence, and zero privacy and freedom? Is that the world we are ready to embrace without resistance? The coming prison is worse; it has no walls and it can find its prisoners before they even know what they have done wrong. Main source for this article: Recently From Kevin Samson 