The fatal shore
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Read on Hacker News…e've got enough indefinite imprisonment without charges going on as it is. Please don't encourage it. Once upon a time, people's "data shadows" were very thin indeed. In The Fatal Shore , a truly awesome history book about Australia, they talked about policing in Georgian England. The identification of criminals relied primarily on verbal descriptions of their looks: Official crime records and registers of criminals were primitive, and there would be no fingerprinting until 1885. Artists made sketches, for popular consumption, of famous offenders... but one could no more recognize a felon from such semi-devotional effigies than pick St. Paul from a crowd by consulting a Byzantine icon. Identification of wanted men had to be made from verbal descriptions in the police gazettes, circulated to mayors and magistrates after the early 1770s... …
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