Freedom of Information Act requests and other records seen by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) reveal that early work is being done on a concept dubbed, "Digital Police Officer (D-PO)."
The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) is behind this project, and the digital rights groups says this is a national lab - considering that it is run on behalf of the US Department of Energy by a corporation, Battelle.
Related: UK police to use behavioral data to stop "would-be" offenders from committing crime
While at it, EFF also slammed the idea as something that looks like "a pitch for the most dystopian buddy cop movie ever."
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