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by nmstoker 2611 days ago
I'm no lawyer but it seems hard to imagine it could be illegal as it would be based on supposition rather than fact and only someone in possession of the unredacted report would know for sure if it were right.
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While we're speculating:

If the algorithm predicted, "Then CIA extraodinary-rendition'd $particular_person_of_interest_to_people_with_top_secret_clearance to a black site"

you'd hope to get a judge who's technical enough to understand that the algorithm didn't "know;" it just "predicted."

Point being, I don't personally have much faith that the justice system evaluates tech the way we would.