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Penal code: The coming world of trial by algorithm

on September 06, 2013

""An officer can devote more resources to investigating the theft of a vital piece of medical equipment than the theft of an iPod," says Woodrow Hartzog at the Cumberland School of Law at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama. "It seems like we are a very long way from being able to convert such complicated decision-making process into code.""

Date Published:09/06/2013
Original Publication:New Scientist

Published in: Press , Civil Liberties , Privacy