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San Francisco Chronicle: https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Intelligent-robot-surveillance-poses-13999070.php
"Businesses and the government have spent years installing millions of surveillance cameras across the United States. Now that technology is on the verge of getting a major upgrade, the American Civil Liberties Union warns in a new report.
"Advancements in artificial intelligence could supercharge surveillance, allowing camera owners to identify "unusual" behavior, recognize actions like hugging or kissing, easily seek out embarrassing footage and estimate a person's age or, possibly, even their disposition, the group argues.
[...] "The United States is, by various estimates, home to tens of millions of surveillance cameras. While many of those devices have been around for years, it has been widely understood that it would be unfeasible, if not impossible, for each device to be constantly monitored and its footage carefully categorized and documented, Stanley notes in the report, titled "The Dawn of Robot Surveillance." Even the Justice Department has said that watching such footage is "boring and mesmerizing" and that attention fades after about 20 minutes.
"But improvements to technology created to actively monitor such feeds, known by several names including "video analytics," are poised to change that, ensuring that every second of footage can be analyzed.
[...] "The ability to constantly analyze and learn from a video feed could help self-driving cars understand their surroundings, retail stores track their products and health professionals monitor their patients, he said. It can also be used to scrutinize the routines and actions of individuals on an enormous scale, the ACLU warns."
My Grand Mother always used to warn me, "you can't get away with anything bad because God is always watching you."
(Score: 3, Insightful) by darkfeline on Sunday June 16 2019, @11:22PM (1 child)
I think I probably wrote about this at some point, but here goes.
In my opinion pervasive surveillance is inevitable, although it can be delayed. We as a society are going to have to learn to leave each other alone, and the best way to do that is to make sure that the people who can't seem to leave others alone (people in power, politicians, "SJW"s who try to find a single politically incorrect post and ruin someone's life, etc.) are equally surveilled and that data made equally publically available. Per the apocryphal quote:
"If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him."
Once everyone is surveilled equally, it'll be social suicide to try digging up someone's secrets, because you also have secrets.
"He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her."
At least, that is my hope, because I think surveillance in inevitable; if we don't figure out how to live with it, society is going to be in for a rough time.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 17 2019, @07:09PM
Yeah, because you're not going to do anything to oppose it. We need laws against mass surveillance, not this defeatist attitude. We must massively limit what sorts of data corporations and governments can collect.
As someone who actually cares about privacy, I'd rather blow my brains out than "live with it." Society is going to be in for a rough time if it passively accepts mass surveillance as you have, since privacy from mass surveillance is a fundamental human right.