Hot People: Automated Profiling, Pre-Crime Investigation, and the Fourth Amendment
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Duarte, Natasha
- Affiliation: Hussman School of Journalism and Media, Mass Communication Graduate Program
- Abstract
- This thesis explores the legal and policy implications of tools that use data mining and automation to predict the likelihood that an individual will commit a future crime. It refers to these algorithms as “automated profiles” because, like analog crime profiles such as the drug courier profile, the algorithms rely on facially innocent characteristics as indicators of criminal activity. The first half of this thesis discusses how the Fourth Amendment case law concerning the drug courier profile might apply to automated profiling. The second half discusses various policy concerns raised by law enforcement agencies’ use of automated profiling systems. This thesis concludes by making several recommendations for the police departments that use these systems, the agencies that may regulate them, the computer scientists who develop them, and the judges who will review them.
- Date of publication
- May 2016
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- Advisor
- Ekstrand, Victoria
- Packer, Cathy Lee
- Klinefelter, Anne
- Degree
- Master of Arts
- Degree granting institution
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate School
- Graduation year
- 2016
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