“Today the Sheriff acknowledged that dystopian program violated the Constitution and agreed never to bring it back.”

I dunno about you guys but this case was the proverbial “straw that broke the camel’s back” that made me start taking privacy seriously.

tl;dr Pasco County, FL was running a “predictive policing” program where they would use “a glorified Excel spreadsheet” to predict crimes and an algorithm would spit out “potential criminals” in the area. Most of them ended up being children. After that they would harass their families’ day and night until they either committed a crime and went to jail or moved out of the county (which was the intention all along).

God Bless the IJ for taking up this cause and shutting it down, because it is honestly terrifying. It’s a rare W for privacy. However I’m sure we haven’t seen the last of “predictive policing” and we should remain vigilant.

and here’s the video they made about it in 2022