When your product is the thing killing, harming, abusing, abducting or violating the rights of citizens, the ‘better a false positive’ is absolutely not the best solution. Portable cause has a standard for a reason. You could make an equal case that ‘i had a feeling’ is a system that produced false positives and hey, let’s just let’s cops violate people’s rights because they felt like it…
When your product is the thing killing, harming, abusing, abducting or violating the rights of citizens, the ‘better a false positive’ is absolutely not the best solution. Portable cause has a standard for a reason. You could make an equal case that ‘i had a feeling’ is a system that produced false positives and hey, let’s just let’s cops violate people’s rights because they felt like it…
And that’s an excellent argument for not using these kinds of automated detective systems in the first place.