> this case, Rekor helped police to assess the route that Zayas’ car was taking on a multi-year basis. The algorithm—which found that the driver was routinely making trips back and forth between Massachusetts and certain areas of upstate New York—determined that Zayas’ routes were “known to be used by narcotics pushers and [involved]...conspicuously short stays,” Forbes writes. As a result, the program deemed Zayas’s activity consistent with that of a drug trafficker.
Years ago, when my girlfriend went to a different college than me, I drove 100 miles every weekend from my town to my state's capital city. I would show up, stay a couple hours, and then she would come home with me. At the end of the weekend, I drove her back. I did this every weekend. I wonder if the algorithm would think I was a drug trafficker