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The ACLU has published a report "on a $3.2 billion industry building a technology known as 'video analytics', which is starting to augment surveillance cameras around the world and has the potential to turn them into just that kind of nightmarish army of unblinking watchers."
Using cutting-edge, deep learning-based AI, the science is moving so fast that early versions of this technology are already starting to enter our lives. Some of our cars now come equipped with dashboard cameras that can sound alarms when a driver starts to look drowsy. Doorbell cameras today can alert us when a person appears on our doorstep. Cashier-less stores use AI-enabled cameras that monitor customers and automatically charge them when they pick items off the shelf.
In the report, we looked at where this technology has been deployed, and what capabilities companies are claiming they can offer. We also reviewed scores of papers by computer vision scientists and other researchers to see what kinds of capabilities are being envisioned and developed. What we found is that the capabilities that computer scientists are pursuing, if applied to surveillance and marketing, would create a world of frighteningly perceptive and insightful computer watchers monitoring our lives.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by inertnet on Tuesday June 25 2019, @02:08PM (4 children)
In my opinion augmented video is probably even easier to tamper with. It won't be long until deepfake surveillance video's are going to appear as 'proof' of whatever needs to be proven.
How do you fight those?
(Score: 4, Insightful) by nitehawk214 on Tuesday June 25 2019, @02:25PM (3 children)
The only way to fight it is for people stop believing video "evidence" on its own.
But considering how many people believe aliens have visited earth based on a grainy photo of a dinner plate with a flashlight on it... we are fucked.
"Don't you ever miss the days when you used to be nostalgic?" -Loiosh
(Score: 3, Informative) by Thexalon on Tuesday June 25 2019, @03:03PM (2 children)
Well that's no problem: Now we have "surveillance footage", a testilying cop, and a couple of homeless people we gave some subs to say what we wanted them to say in court. And if for some reason that's insufficient, we'll get a crooked examiner to announce some sort of "partial" fingerprint match on something.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by nitehawk214 on Tuesday June 25 2019, @03:12PM (1 child)
If the state is determined to lock you up, they are not going to bother faking video evidence.
"Don't you ever miss the days when you used to be nostalgic?" -Loiosh
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Thexalon on Tuesday June 25 2019, @03:25PM
The fake video evidence is to not only lock you up, but to assassinate your character so they can also discredit any ideas or causes you happened to support, and also prevent pesky Amnesty International campaigns for your release and such.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.