Minority Report is here: Microsoft reveals app that can predict crimes in the future – and could even decide if inmates get parole
Software analyzes specific data of each inmate like their behavior in jail
Has only been tested using fabricated inmate data
Works with up to 91% accuracy based on historic data
Civil rights groups believe will create categorical suspicions
Hitachi created monitoring system called Predictive Crime Analytics (PCA)
PCA collects data from Twitter, CCTV camera feeds and traffic systems
By STACY LIBERATORE
DAILYMAIL.COM
16 December 2015
Predicting and preventing crime once only seemed possible in science fiction films.
But now, Microsoft is developing a program that has the potential to mimic the powers of the ‘precogs’ from the 2002 film Minority Report and stop inmates from becoming recurring offenders.
This new technology could predict which inmates will return to jail within six months of their release, based on historical data.
‘It’s all about software that has the ability to predict the future,’ said Jeff King, a senior program manager at Microsoft, in a webcast with police departments earlier this year that has virtually gone unnoticed.
The program, which has not been named yet, is still in early development stages and the data used in the proof-of-concept isn’t from real inmates.
An algorithm will be used analyze specific data of each inmate, such as their crimes or their behavior while incarcerated.
King noted this works with up to 91 percent accuracy based on historic data.
‘Does the offender have a gang affiliation?’, King explained in the webcast.
‘Are they part of a rehab program?’
‘How many violations do they have in jail?’
‘How many hours in administrative segregation?’
Microsoft has used predicting technology in the past, but only with predicting a gamers next move.
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