We could do with a bit of that here

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/08/chinese-celebrities-warned-over-morality-in-cultural-crackdown

e Hara i te Waiata pono

 First of all, I reverence to the late Audre Geraldine Lorde, Caribbean/American black activist, poet, lecturer, mother and guiding light for feminism.  Openly gay, she travelled extensively and opened dialogue on racism, sexism and the patriarchy.   Her inspirational writings buttress the foundations of the fight against slavery, sexual, psychological and mind-slavery, her work shines, a contemporary of Maya Angelou, Angela Davis, Marcia Hines, Rita Marley and Judy Mowatt, to name a few.

Now her name is usurped by a popstar from the nether regions for reasons unfathomable, without preamble or acknowledgement of the respect due an old warhorse, Poet Laureate of New York, cannon in the literate world and feminist icon.   Audre Lorde adopted the pen name Zami.  She had two children to a Rollins so I wonder whether the use of this name Lorde has bothered them.  Her father was Frederick Byron Lorde from Barbados, her mother Linda Gertrude Belmar Lorde from Carriacou, Grenada.

https://www.google.com/search?q=Linda+Gertrude+Belmar+Lorde&sa=X&rlz=1C5CHFA_enNZ704NZ709&stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAOPgE-LUz9U3MEypMLNQ4gIx85LKM8xStCSzk630C1LzC3JSgVRRcX6eVUFiUWpeSfEiVmmfzLyURAX31KKSotKUVAWn1JzcxCIFn_yilNQdrIwAbLviR1UAAAA&sxsrf=AOaemvJ-dqtij0g442cnuevOzBB_aAU1Vg:1631827431854&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&fir=UP10q4yumLsxQM%252CjbTmLZm1-p4JsM%252C%252Fm%252F0nbwh6d&vet=1&usg=AI4_-kSJv4QD6_JteNi-AuBjv0t3V38-jQ&ved=2ahUKEwie2aPztoTzAhVIzTgGHX31B3YQ_B16BAguEAI&biw=1400&bih=729&dpr=2#imgrc=UP10q4yumLsxQM

from the ruins of my bedroom

hangs a spikey misty glare

ko nga kupu ka tuhia ano kaore ano kia whanau

mai i taku puku ka tino haea..

"How I send my love, my dear,  knowing of your struggle here,

 kisses blowing on the wind,  memories of you rescind,"  ~  Audre G. Lorde 1934-1992

Secondly I tautoko  you, matua, who brings light to the darkness and spirit to movement,  for your article: https://www.thebigidea.nz/stories/tokenism-in-full-force-my-take-on-lordes-album            tokenism yes, but also UMG lizards on the make with their fancy high tech: "Ella is used to working in a specific way.." yeah right...

from the Nissan to the pulsar, from the pulsar to the moon, 

your corporate recipe for angst & sorrow Jack&Ella

I had to hold my nose and mute the sound like Ulyses' crew but listen I did :(  it actually gave me a heart attack.  

whence cometh the wind?

 Are you kidding? The suggestion that referendum data could be used for profiling just somehow rings true.  

Paranoia much? Try looking at OnDuty app, as used by our lovely boys and girls here: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300247968/police-using-app-to-photograph-innocent-youth-its-so-wrong    ...Tom Cruise eat your heart out, 'Minority Report' looks tame by comparison.  Police can scan vehicles, faces, minors, children, babies, horses, dogs, anything valuable with impunity and log the data (capture it) to the system.  To quote the app developers, smudge, "Since we've deployed OnDuty we've seen over 36 million queries. " 

 "Reports can also be shared with other agencies through the app, whereas before it often took several days." This app has been in use since 2014.

The Police Chief Information Officer Superintendent Rob Cochrane says: "The real power of OnDuty lies in being able to access, manipulate and share information from anywhere in the field. This allows our staff to operate in a truly mobile environment, working with our communities to ensure they're safe. The benefits from OnDuty are realised throughout New Zealand Police".

Taking all that into consideration and remembering that all online voting is traceable, and that people going to vote manually are closely monitored, I would hesitantly say that profiling is not only possible but likely.

Cochrane says the mission of NZ Police is to be the 'safest country in the world ' -  “When we are designing and building, we have uniformed staff as product owners sitting with developers, making day-to-day business decisions on the development.”

(uniformed staff as product owners...really?)

“The developers love it, the cops love it.”

It all sounds very lovely, but if policy makers are Artificial Intelligences, which some of them seem to be, there will be no room for compassion or humanity. This is not safety (for humans anyway).

No offence to Reuben and Toby over at smudge but I don't think the algorithm is that keen.  

Last week I had to replace my credit card due to a retail bloc being compromised.  No biggie but this just demonstrates the inherent instability of the griftopia.

 

References:https://smudge.com/case-studies/new-zealand-police-onduty/

                 https://www.cio.com/article/3514829/nz-police-to-deploy-digital-human-ai-powered-online-forms.html