Signature strikes kill based on behavior patterns, not confirmed identity

Evidence

Furthermore, in determining that status, one slips from an epistemology of manifest observation and statements of fact into an epistemology of suspicion in which a targeting decision is based on the identification of behavior or a pattern of life that suggests membership in a hostile organization. For example, your pattern of life might suggest a 70 percent chance that you are a militant, in other words a combatant, and we accordingly have the right to kill you. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 482 (#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; Pattern-of-life strikes kill civilians through unconfirmed behavioral inference (+8 more)

Related

• Pattern-of-life strikes kill civilians through unconfirmed behavioral inference (similarity 0.95)
• Under activity-based intelligence, established patterns replace identity as grounds for killing. (similarity 0.91)
• Signature strikes fire blindly on pattern-of-life indicators and kill innocents (similarity 0.90)
• Activity-based intelligence replaces identity and files of data become death warrants (similarity 0.88)
• Most drone strikes target suspects whose identity is unknown at the moment of killing. (similarity 0.88)
• 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)
• Surveillance can predict civilian behavior from recurring spatial and social patterns (similarity 0.83)
• Preemptive drone targeting rests on epistemologically fragile predictions (similarity 0.83)
• Drones produce constant terror because targets never know when they are tracked. (similarity 0.80)
• Preemptive drone strikes rest on fragile and therefore dangerous prediction claims. (similarity 0.80)
• Predictive threat-detection rests on epistemologically fragile assumptions (similarity 0.78)
• Drone surveillance cannot reliably distinguish combatants from civilians (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Activity-based intelligence replaces identity with behavioral templates as targeting basis #corroborates (0.90)
• Drone targeting decisions rest on probabilistic inference from behavior rather than observed facts. #corroborates (0.85) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 482
• Surveillance can predict civilian behavior from recurring spatial and social patterns #corroborates (0.75)
• Signature strikes fire blindly on pattern-of-life indicators and kill innocents #contradicts (0.70)
• Behavioral schemas cannot disambiguate unrelated phenomena producing the same signature #corroborates (0.65)
• Predictive threat-detection rests on epistemologically fragile assumptions #expands (0.60) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 198