I think the idea of someone fabricating legal-but-indicitave online information about you so that you turn red in the police&#x27;s system and then setting you up to be considered a threat in an incident where the police assume you are dangerous but you are not and are goaded into shooting you is kind of a stretch. Maybe a good plot for a movie.<p>But the program itself is somewhat troubling. But right now we have a profiling system the police use. It&#x27;s &#x27;dark skin -&gt; almost certainly has a gun&#x27; instead of &#x27;BEWARE says green BEWARE says red&#x27;. Is looking at public info with an explicit review-able algorithm better or worse than letting officers profile naturally?<p>I&#x27;d agree using data like this for police purposes can be fraught with issues and is troubling but even as a privacy advocate this system seems at the very least not worse than what we currently do. Not because it is good, but because what we currently do is so bad.