Tea Leaf
June 29th, 2006A nine-month-old baby is the youngest person to be identified as a future delinquent using new technology aimed at predicting risk, a Community Care conference heard last week.
Dr Eileen Munro, reader in social policy at London School of Economics, warned that rapidly developing IT could become a monster rather than a useful tool.
Do we see a potential future here?
Once the state has marked an individual as a potential (inherent) trouble-maker that person will be spending the rest of their life on the defensive trying to prove themselves against a databased assumption of their guilt.
And all that follows…
July 3rd, 2006 at 2:34 pm
This post got linked to by this blog which has links to a few other blogs interested in keeping children and databsases separate.