ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the prominent place assumed by digitized data, algorithmic data mining and predictive analytics in pre-crime, tied to the recent emergence of "Big Data" and the increased deployment of automated data-mining programs retooled from the commercial sector for the purposes of crime control. It focuses on the term "security assemblage" to refer to the webs of public and private agencies who coalesce around, and are linked through, data flows and pre-emptive technologies. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) commented that "the key to fighting terrorism is information. Elements of the solution include gathering a much broader array of data than one currently do". The element of analytic capacity is particularly important in terms of pre-emption, as "predictive analytics",with the power to scour enormous data troves and assemble patterns and correlations, are increasingly used to predict everything "from the weather to the behaviour of financial markets".
