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by dhosek 872 days ago
I’m sure that this is merely a first-pass filter and not a case of arrest warrants being automatically issued based on usage (although I’m sure that will come soon enough).
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Exactly. The value of simply windowing your search set by a few orders of magnitude, with low false negatives, is underappreciated.

Getting from 100,000,000 to 10,000 (0.01%) makes other subsequent methods viable, including "have a person follow them," that wouldn't be on the full set.