Child Protective Services to Use AI, Big Data To Predict Child Abuse

Pre-crime is taken to a new extreme to smoke out child abuse situations but to get there, millions of citizens will suffer privacy abuse.Many false positives will also be wrongfully abused. It this trading one kind of abuse for another? Indeed, Technocrats have created an ethical firestorm. ⁃ TN EditorIn an age of austerity, and a climate of fear about child abuse, perhaps it is unsurprising that social workers have turned to new technology for help.
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