Pattern-of-life strikes kill civilians through unconfirmed behavioral inference

Evidence

From the mass of information collected about a particular individual, group, or place gradually emerge patterns, or traceable themes. Activity becomes an alternative to identity. Once a target has been named, instead of trying to localize it, do quite the opposite. Start by establishing surveillance and gathering information. Next, make large-scale graphs to do an analysis of “big data,” picking out nodular points that, by reason of the position and scale they occupy on the diagram, can be identified as threats that need to be neutralized. … The painstaking work of establishing an archive of lives progressively gathers together the elements of a file that, once it becomes thick enough, will constitute a death warrant. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 216 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Activity-based intelligence replaces identity and files of data become death warrants; Signature strikes kill people whose identities are unknown, based only on behavioral patterns; Signature strikes kill based on behavior patterns, not confirmed identity (+9 more)

Related

• Signature strikes kill based on behavior patterns, not confirmed identity (similarity 0.95)
• Signature strikes fire blindly on pattern-of-life indicators and kill innocents (similarity 0.94)
• Under activity-based intelligence, established patterns replace identity as grounds for killing. (similarity 0.93)
• Activity-based intelligence replaces identity and files of data become death warrants (similarity 0.92)
• Most drone strikes target suspects whose identity is unknown at the moment of killing. (similarity 0.89)
• Activity-based intelligence replaces identity with behavioral templates as targeting basis (similarity 0.88)
• Drone targeting decisions rest on probabilistic inference from behavior rather than observed facts. (similarity 0.85)
• Preemptive drone targeting rests on epistemologically fragile predictions (similarity 0.84)
• Preemptive drone strikes rest on fragile and therefore dangerous prediction claims. (similarity 0.82)
• Drones produce constant terror because targets never know when they are tracked. (similarity 0.82)
• Surveillance can predict civilian behavior from recurring spatial and social patterns (similarity 0.81)
• Predictive threat-detection rests on epistemologically fragile assumptions (similarity 0.80)
• Drone strikes depend on a network of remote invisible human observers (similarity 0.79)
• Drone surveillance cannot reliably distinguish combatants from civilians (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Under activity-based intelligence, established patterns replace identity as grounds for killing. #corroborates (0.85) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 216
• Signature strikes kill based on behavior patterns, not confirmed identity #corroborates (0.80)
• Signature strikes fire blindly on pattern-of-life indicators and kill innocents #corroborates (0.75)
• Drone targeting decisions rest on probabilistic inference from behavior rather than observed facts. #corroborates (0.70) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 482
• Preemptive drone targeting rests on epistemologically fragile predictions #corroborates (0.65)
• Predictive threat-detection rests on epistemologically fragile assumptions #corroborates (0.60) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 198
• Drone strikes depend on a network of remote invisible human observers #expands (0.40)