Minority Report aka N-DEx

N-DEx is a new system that is going to be used by police agencies and federal agencies and basically many different authorities across the US. This new system is supposed to help these various agencies to figure out a suspects record in other states. The system goes beyond this though and finds random bits of information about a person. An example being about a man whose truck has had a flat tire outside of 5 nuclear power plants. Although one might think that this is useful information ( and it might actually be) the program will use random scraps of information like this to make "educated guesses" using a service that is being developed by "predictor" about what a person might do. This seems eerily familiar to minority report except we don't have someone predicting the future through a vision rather a computer is being relied upon to "guess" at human actions. This just seems wrong for the glaring reason that free will exists and human actions are hard to predict especially because split second decisions or random events might change someone's mindset. Some say in the article that this also raises fear that the police are getting too much information and it poses a threat to civil liberties. I just hope that preemptive arrests don't start to become a topic of discussion or else minority report might become a reality.