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
