According to this report, the Metropolitan police "has been collecting 'children's personal data' from social media sites as part of a project to carry out 'profiling on a large scale'." I assume these are police in London, England, though the story does not say. It's known as Project Alpha, and is argued to help "fight serious violence, with the intelligence gathered identifying offenders and securing the removal of videos." If the method actually worked, there might be less objection, however as critics note, "Young people use social media to magnify their lived experience. It is a tool for projection, you can't rely on it for detection. It is racially motivated, racially driven and involves racial stereotypes." Used not only in the UK but around the world, police profiling is a lot like China's social credit system, but without the openness, social awareness, and public input.
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