DHS’s predictive policing is unconstitutional, un-American and should be stopped

Here’s the problem: information tells a story and says whatever its narrator wants it to say, which is then used to justify subsequent actions. The state — as the collector of your data — is the narrator of your story. It determines which dots get connected and which picture gets painted about you. That’s ripe for abuse because anyone can take massive amounts of information and cherry-pick it to convey anything they want and then act on it.

In the words of Cardinal Richelieu, “If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.”