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Yeah there's already at least one well known case. This article mentions it https://wp.api.aclu.org/press-releases/208236
Police use to justify stops and arrests: Alerts are sent directly to a phone app used by officers, enabling immediate stops and detentions based on unverified purported facial recognition matches.
I'm looking more for large-scale quantitative numbers. I mean one destroyed life is really bad. But they could argue they'd have saved 30 lives in turn, and then we'd need to discuss how to do the maths on that...
Yeah, I am not sure but hopefully somebody has the numbers. That is usually the argument for trampling the constitution.
Hard to say how much has been actually documented bc they've been doing a lot of this stuff off record.
They potentially saved 30000 lives locking up 100 people for crimes committed by somebody else in a states they've never been to and we might not even know about it
Oh well, some people in the USA have a really "interesting" relationship with their own constitution these days... I sometimes feel like explaining it to them. Or what a constitutional republic is.
Yeah, keeping things "off record" is the usual strategy to get away with whatever you wanted.