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At what point does this push to monitor the conversation and use technology to enable "pre-crime" arrests cross over into civil rights violations?
Alan W. Silberberg: Spies Really "Like" Us Alan W. Silberberg 2011
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Computer activity can offer a version of the sinister ‘pre-crime’ of the film Minority Report, recording criminal intent, or possible criminal intent.
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Computer activity can even be seen as offering a version of the sinister "pre-crime" of the film Minority Report, recording criminal intent, or possible criminal intent.
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At what point does this push to monitor the conversation and use technology to enable "pre-crime" arrests cross over into civil rights violations?
Alan W. Silberberg: Spies Really "Like" Us Alan W. Silberberg 2011
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Shooting upwards like a pre-crime law officer with a jetpack and sick-stick: hyper-motivated social networking site-creating wunderkinder (or indispensable internet search engine inventors or idealistic community-organizing Harvard Law graduates).
And The Geeks Shall Pwn The Earth Aisha Tyler 2010
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Shooting upwards like a pre-crime law officer with a jetpack and sick-stick: hyper-motivated social networking site-creating wunderkinder (or indispensable internet search engine inventors or idealistic community-organizing Harvard Law graduates).
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Thoughts on "department of pre-crime preventive indefinite detention"
[department of pre-crime] preventive indefinite detention 2009
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Another advantage of “shall issue” over swift and certain punishment is that “shall issue” may be a more certain pre-crime deterrant than punishment, which is post-crime.
The Volokh Conspiracy » How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment 2009
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Shooting upwards like a pre-crime law officer with a jetpack and sick-stick: hyper-motivated social networking site-creating wunderkinder (or indispensable internet search engine inventors or idealistic community-organizing Harvard Law graduates).
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Unless the NYPD has some new pre-crime division, he's sorely mistaken.
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED 2008
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