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My phone detects going on a run as “someone snatching my phone and running off”

75 points · 135 comments · luu

  1. kbrannigan · · focus · HN ↗
    Coming soon near you:

    - Warming up for a run: Possible agitated tweaker, possible crisis

    - Going for a run after midnight: Evasive solitary movement after dark

    - Sprinting the last block home: Flight behavior consistent with shoplifting offense

    - Running with a hood up in the rain: Deliberate biometric obfuscation - Two runners meeting at a corner and leaving in opposite directions: Brief contact event, possible hand-to-hand

    Score increase the darker you get.

    1. helterskelter · · focus · HN ↗
      2036 crime prevention, detecting this behaviour and automatically forwarding it to the police to be referenced later for probable cause.
      1. Joker_vD · · focus · HN ↗
        Pfft, police. Have you read Watchbird (1953) by Robert Sheckley? That's pretty much exactly where we're heading right now.
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