RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Brazil's Ministry of Justice (MJ) has recently provided states with what it has termed "Big Data tools for fighting crime". The system receives and cross-checks data from cities across the country to identify potential suspicious behaviors and steer policing actions by state government corporations. Data will be produced from monitoring using a variety of devices, such as cameras scattered across thousands of cities, vehicles and even the electronic ankle monitors of convicted offenders.
The initiative is one of the most notable examples of what has been called smart cities. To employ such
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