Article by John & Nisha Whitehead
Excerpt:
The most chilling effect of this digital regime is the death of due process.
What court can you appeal to when an algorithm has labeled you a danger? What lawyer can cross-examine a predictive model? What jury can weigh the reasoning of a neural net trained on flawed data?
You are guilty because the machine says so. And the machine is never wrong.
When due process dissolves into data processing, the burden of proof flips. The presumption of innocence evaporates. Citizens are forced to prove they are not threats, not risks, not enemies.
And most of the time, they don’t even know they’ve been flagged.
This erosion of due process is not just a legal failure—it is a philosophical one, reducing individuals to data points in systems that no longer recognize their humanity.
See also this article by (or rather, interview with) Doug Casey.