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The FBI's department of precrime.(INSIDE TRACK)(precognition of crime)
In the short story Minority Report, the late science fiction master Philip K. Dick described a future police division called "Precrime" that sought to discover and arrest criminals before they committed an actual crime. Dick's Precrime unit depended on the work of three human "precogs" who could see the future, but also used banks of computers and databases to refine the precog vision of the future. In the unit's "analytical wing," Dick imagined "impressive banks of equipment--the data-receptors, and the computing mechanisms that studied and restructured the incoming material."
Post-9/11, real life has begun to imitate Philip K. Dick. Absent the "precogs," a new report to Congress has painted a picture of a sort of nascent FBI precrime unit using data-mining programs to filter through databases of private information looking for suspicious activity. According to Wired magazine, the Justice Department is using data mining to track "identity-theft gangs, Medicare fraud, staged automobile accidents, online pharmacy scams and illegal housing sales."
The Justice Department is also using a System to Assess Risk (STAR) data-mining program that will let a user enter the names of terrorist ...
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