Wednesday, June 13, 2018

More data and surveillance are transforming justice systems

https://www.economist.com/technology-quarterly/2018-05-02/justice

ON WHAT does the administration of justice depend? Devotees of the Old Testament might say wisdom, as displayed in King Solomon’s judgment. Others might say a dispassionate objectivity. It also requires the threat of punishment—the basis of the modern state’s coercive power to enforce laws. But John Fielding knew that, before administrators of justice could mete out punishment or exercise wisdom, they needed something else: information.

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