LOS ANGELES/WASHINGTON: When the sheriff in Suffolk County, New York, requested US$700,000 (RM2.92mil) from the US government for an artificial intelligence system to eavesdrop on prison phone conversations, his office called it a key tool in fighting gang-related and violent crime.
But the county jail ended up listening to calls involving a much wider range of subjects – scanning as many as 600,000 minutes per month, according to public records from the county obtained by the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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