From the article - this is some minority report pre-crime bullshit.

‘One prompt Flock preloaded into the system reads: “Find me witnesses based on vehicles most seen in [neighborhood] during [last 14 days] during [daily timeframe] *(will not include whitelisted vehicles).” An officer would fill in the blanks and submit it. The output is a list of plates, which other tools in the product then convert into names and home addresses.

Another prompt instructs the system to list everyone arrested more than twice in two years for “any offense,” exempting only narcotics arrests, and then says to map where those people live, retrieve the calls for service at their homes, and “do a workup on the top three individuals.” The prompt begins with everyone in the area who has an arrest record and ends with dossiers on three of them, chosen by the software.

One group of requests asks for vehicles that visited three or more retail locations in a city in three days, or multiple banks in a week, or multiple gas stations between midnight and 5 am. None of the five names a target or an incident.’

It’s a poorly written headline for a well written article. The article outlines the system and its potential uses based on forensic evidence left on publicly facing websites.

It’s in the article. Login pages for the systems were left open to the Internet on their website. Using the objects delivered during that session, they were able to reconstruct some of these systems. Basically viewing the page source to get more information on what things could be.

No, the cloud is just someone else’s computer.

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