Machine learning tools to flag office misconduct
Richard Stallman's Personal Page [Unofficial]
March 12, 2026
Metropolitan British] police [using [machine learning] tools supplied by Palantir to flag officer misconduct.
It is legitimate to monitor the conduct of police officers in ways that would not be morally legitimate for workers in general, because police officers have special authority and face the temptation to become thugs. However, giving their personal data to Palantir is not excusable.
Sad to say, use of "bossware" for monitoring of workers with no special authority has become widespread.
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