Theresa May Calls for More Regulation of Internet After London Attack

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pcgeek11

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They collect data on all of us but they can't go through all that data for everyone. Once someone does something though, they can mine the data for anything they want to know. Believe me, if you ever committed an act like this, agents would be talking to every person you ever had contact with and watching archived video of every time you masturbated to internet porn in front of your webcam.

Even with that it seems a bit fast to have not already been watching these people. I also have tape over my web cam... :rolleyes:
 

cytg111

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They collect data on all of us but they can't go through all that data for everyone. Once someone does something though, they can mine the data for anything they want to know. Believe me, if you ever committed an act like this, agents would be talking to every person you ever had contact with and watching archived video of every time you masturbated to internet porn in front of your webcam.

Maybe a person(s) cant go through all that data but dont think for a second that state of the art AI is not patterning this data up close to realtime.
 

greatnoob

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Maybe a person(s) cant go through all that data but dont think for a second that state of the art AI is not patterning this data up close to realtime.
That's a very good point. Machine deep learning seems like a very useful tool for finding and matching terrorist-like activities. The question is, how many of us would be fine exposing our personal information to stop a handful of these sick killers?
 

cytg111

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That's a very good point. Machine deep learning seems like a very useful tool for finding and matching terrorist-like activities. The question is, how many of us would be fine exposing our personal information to stop a handful of these sick killers?
Nail on the head. The real kicker here is this, if its an AI traversing data, is your privacy ever compromised? Per definition no, it is not. This is a loophole and I would be very surprised if it wasent exploited *widely* allready.
 

Exterous

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Giving up various freedoms in exchange for the illusion of safety is never a good idea. And good luck getting most governments to loosen up their grip once they've got it around something
 

UglyCasanova

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Just heard on NPR that one of the attackers was reported by some lady (she took pictures and everything) to the police and was even in a documentary called the jihadist next door praying next to an ISIS flag.

What good does monitoring everyone do when the police won't act on info staring them in the face? This is just an excuse to increase governments (not mind admittedly) reach, nothing more. It won't stop anything.
 

Roflmouth

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Just heard on NPR that one of the attackers was reported by some lady (she took pictures and everything) to the police and was even in a documentary called the jihadist next door praying next to an ISIS flag.

What good does monitoring everyone do when the police won't act on info staring them in the face? This is just an excuse to increase governments (not mind admittedly) reach, nothing more. It won't stop anything.

Because it would be Islamaphobic or something.
 

pcgeek11

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I also heard that one of his friends reported him to the authorities and they did nothing. Sounds bad for the government officials if true.
 

J.Wilkins

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Rescinding the cuts to the Police would be a much better option.

But that would require May to admit that she fucked that up so it's not going to happen.
 

DrunkenSano

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Rescinding the cuts to the Police would be a much better option.

But that would require May to admit that she fucked that up so it's not going to happen.

Why did she have a position on cutting back on police? And with what is happening recently, it should give her a very good reason to reverse her position.
 

Hayabusa Rider

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Britain cannot contain its terrorists. It can't trust its citizens so it leaves them with no hope of self defense. The police can yell "Oy, what's all this".

The next step is minitrue.
 

Stokely

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Reporting someone to the police vs them being able to actually lock them up are pretty different things. If it turns out that there was enough there to arrest them, and it didn't happen....then so be it, the police are at fault. And no matter how many officers you have, it's probably impossible to just simply watch suspicious people around the clock in the hopes of getting them when they finally make a move...