Predictive policing algorithms tagged Uyghur women as terrorists before arrest.

Evidence

Before her arrest, the state tracked every terrestrial and virtual footstep Jelilova Gulbahar left behind. Every online purchase and social media exchange, every phone conversation and checkpoint stop supplied the state with a fluid stream of data, data fed into a policing algorithm that led to Jelilova’s identification as a “terrorist.” — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 531

Categorization

• SHARE: The full-data-stream-to-algorithm-tag pipeline is exactly the sort of specific operational detail that makes the Uyghur surveillance case vivid for technologists.
• XREF: connects to: Policing increasingly justifies killing people for hypothetical future crimes — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1752