Saturday, October 05, 2002

Bots Bad at Law Enforcement

Glenn Reynolds' article at Fox News, Stop, in the Name of 'Bots , judges the increasingly human-free efforts to police peoples' activities, from red-light cameras to software programs that search peoples' hard drives for files infringing on copyright. His verdict? I'd say he finds the human directors of those efforts guilty of incompetence, and failure to take personal responsibility for the actions of their machinery.