Secrets of Big Data: 1x1

Beat down by Data

A British warship has its location mysteriously faked when its automated tracking data is compromised, sparking a tense military standoff with Russian forces in the Black Sea. An American teenager is arrested and beaten by police after parking his car in an area determined to be a hotspot for crime by a computer algorithm. A LiDar scan of the Amazon rainforest reveals several strange circular depressions on the jungle floor. An Indian woman has her livelihood destroyed by a cyclone twice in twenty years, but artificial intelligence may just prevent it from happening again.