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Secretive DHS 'Predictive Policing' Unit Is Analyzing Americans' Financial Habits, Pulling Them Over

What happened

404 Media is revealing the name of Border Patrol's predictive policing units, which analyze financial data and have local cops pull people over. The people are not suspected of any particular crime.

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Why it's spreading

Discussion2 sources are covering it, Hacker News first
Discussion2 new signals from 2 sources in the last 6h
DiscussionCommunity discussion only (2 posts), not yet corroborated

Timeline

14:40
First appeared on Hacker NewsHacker News
15:00
Discussion started on SlashdotSlashdot

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Secretive DHS 'Predictive Policing' Unit Is Analyzing Americans' Financial Habits, Pulling Them OverSlashdot1 h ago
DHS 'Predictive Policing' Unit Is Analyzing Americans' Financial HabitsHacker News1 h ago