Artificial Intelligence may be allowing authorities to develop a global AI surveillance system from which no escape is possible. Through the use of AI, authorities can now find out anything they want about an individual in just minutes. It is becoming harder and harder to maintain any privacy. A global digital surveillance prison is currently being constructed. Even if you are totally off-line, cameras and satellites will still be constantly watching. With facial recognition, artificial intelligence can be used to locate you wherever you are on the entire planet. Artificial companies are diligently working on this. According to NPR, it “really can find anything you want anywhere in the world.” The AI revolution in surveillance is happening now. For decades, cameras have been watching over cities, businesses and even homes, but the data was stored locally. Reviewing it required human review. Now AI surveillance systems can hunt for vehicles, scan license plates and even faces in real time. Systems can also track ships at sea. Surveillance has been a labor-intensive business until now. In the wrong hands, such AI technology could be used to implement tyranny on a massive scale never seen before.
AI Surveillance Everywhere
Most people don’t even know that this sort of AI surveillance technology exists, and now AI has made it easy for the watchers to seamlessly connect what we do online with what we do offline, also connecting it all to our real identity to create a complete profile for every internet user. Our online purchases, search queries we submit to search engines, social connections, places we travel to, and everything we do online can be tracked to our real identity. These surveillance systems will allow those interested to exploit the power of AI to collect and analyze the huge volume of data recorded online and connect it to each person. Surveillance cameras powered by AI technology can recognize individuals’ faces quickly and track them across the city. Most people willingly hand over vast troves of personal information about themselves, and the big tech companies are always looking for ways to extract more… Facebook recently added a new “Link History” setting that creates a repository of all the links you click on in their mobile app. You can opt out if you are savvy, but the company is encouraging users to use this new Link History, and the data is used for ad targeting.
Surveillance is Now Even in Vehicles
This isn’t just happening on the Internet. These days, most new vehicles are systematically collecting information on you… If you own an EV or a “digital car,” whatever you say in the car may be recorded. And yes, this data will be sold, too. There is a way to avoid this: Never buy them, drive them, sit in them, or be on the street when they drive by. That's a difficult ask. When you go to buy a new vehicle, be careful to read the fine print. For example, the moment you sit in the passenger seat of a Subaru that uses connected services, you’ve agreed to allow them to use — and possibly sell — your personal information. According to their privacy policy, that includes your name, location, “Audio recordings of Vehicle Occupants”, and conclusions they can draw about things like your “characteristics, predispositions, behavior, or attitudes.” Subaru isn’t the only car company doing this. We have reached a point where nearly everything we do is monitored and put in a database somewhere. And every day the surveillance prison that is being built all around us becomes even more invasive.
Source: Activist Post
