Big Brother Is Watching, And Counting: Law and Order In The Age Of Big Data - New Matilda

Technological tools aiming to equalise sentencing and policing decisions are having the opposite effect. Just ask the 16-year-old kid stopped and searched 23 times in 10 months. Ensuring democracy in data, and technological governance is urgent, writes Georgia Reid. Technology will leave our democracy threadbare. In an era which gives primacy to Big Data, with Australian politicians touting data as a national resource, we should be sceptical of the democracy of technology.