Spielberg on Privacy, Minority Report

Staring at Nothing writes "In this ABC News story famed Hollywood director Steven Spielberg voices some concerns over the current state of privacy and paranoia in a post-9/11 world. Some of Spielberg's recent movies, like AI and Minority Report have brought us haunting views of the future, but the present may be just as scary. He mentions software being developed to monitor "abnormal behavior" and concerns about originality being misconstrued as dangerous behavior." The story has some minor plot spoilers about Minority Report.

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Re:HOW COME?

[MisterBlister]

I dont think mod points really exist anymore. At any rate its been maybe a year since ive seen any under my various accounts, some of which are still above 50 karma

95% chance you are going to commit a crime...

[dreadlord76]

I am an absolute conservative. Heck, I voted for Buchanon.
Please define what sanity is when someone is willing to kill hundreds, or thousands of people on a whim, regardless if they themselves are planning to live or not????
Lets see, another 9/11, or another Internment camp of "May Become Guilty" people. Protection against unreasonable arrest and seizure, or live in fear of police because "Heck, the Oklahoma City Bomber was a White man in a rented truck, let's pick them all up!." (Gosh darn, White American Males Can't be terrorists, right?)
Your are correct in saying that Profiling is quite advanced. However, no one can give you an exact number on what someone MIGHT do.
Even if a Profiler can tell you there is an exact percentage, then at what percentage do you allow the police to break down someones door without evidence?
Use of profiling to assume any sort of guilt, is wrong.

Re:HOW COME?

[newerbob]

Well, I've just been KICKED OFF /.! I thought this was supposed to be Community Moderated. That was the alleged big breakthough: A self-running, self-moderated system.

Obviously, there are some flys in the ointment, because they have to hand-tweak. Don't they have anything better to do?