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: 2) by Rupert Pupnick on Sunday June 16 2019, @06:16PM (3 children)
On the other hand, if they can be caught hugging and kissing using heightened surveillance, maybe it’s something we need to know about.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Sunday June 16 2019, @06:23PM
Personal Digital Affection?
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(Score: 2) by Bot on Sunday June 16 2019, @08:06PM
Personally, I prefer penetration. Into USB sockets for casual connection, PCI for serious stuff.
Account abandoned.
(Score: 1) by anubi on Sunday June 16 2019, @11:48PM
Makes for interesting reactions when the spouse sees it....
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
(Score: 5, Funny) by RandomFactor on Sunday June 16 2019, @06:38PM (2 children)
Government Oversight Department?
В «Правде» нет известий, в «Известиях» нет правды
(Score: 3, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 16 2019, @06:40PM
God has your best interest in mind. No one else does.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 17 2019, @01:14AM
Submitter (captain normal) had an evil grandmother.
(Score: 2) by SomeGuy on Sunday June 16 2019, @06:43PM (1 child)
BDBDBDBD... I see what you are doing, Buck. Please kill me.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 16 2019, @09:41PM
Twiki, is that you?
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Sunday June 16 2019, @07:37PM
He sees you when you're sleeping
He knows when you're awake
He knows if you've been bad or good...
You may or may not know the rest.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 16 2019, @08:13PM
Is that a smartphone in your pocket or are just just happy to surveil me?
(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.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 16 2019, @11:36PM
Catch someone peeing.
Then you can blackmail them for public exposure.
(Score: 1) by nsa on Monday June 17 2019, @06:35PM
This summary I think fails. Part of writing summaries such as this unfortunately involves trying to best succinctly summarize the issue for people too young to be well versed in the fundamentals. Here the fail is because what the ACLU is really warning about isn't the scale of scrutiny, but the potential results of scrutiny at that scale. Political and religious purges. Apostacy retaliation, election 'meddling', etc, etc, etc. Things may well look benign for a good long while, but eventually God may push us down another Holocost Slippery Slope. Or not. I guess that's God's call, so why bother caring right? Just read the words about God on your dollar bills then cozy up to the all seeing eye above the pyramid.
Sigh...