This summer’s Paris Olympics saw an experiment in AI-assisted algorithmic video surveillance. Now French officials say they want to make it permanent, in what experts call a worrying use of invasive and even racially discriminatory technology.
If your country isn’t already surveilling you, there are a dozen data companies, many of them who you don’t even know you are interacting with via a third party, willing to sell them and anyone else willing to pay every bit of information they can glean from you.
And it’s amazing what they can glean from you based on nothing but your internet habits.
Limit them maybe, but I think we’re kind of screwed. I’ve read articles about algorithms that can get a ridiculous amount of information about you based on how others interact with you.
Oh, yeah. That is why I said limit. Even GitHub has ridiculous tracker junk now. I have most of that blocked. It really sucks that people are so complacent to the onset of feudalism. Chalk it up to ignorance of history. Giving up citizenship in a democracy always has terrible consequences throughout history. People now seem to act like it is crazy to point this out, but are blind about the big picture consequences. Things may seem bad now, but this path will make them massively worse.
It shocked me decades ago when I joined Facebook and they suggested friends that I thought that I had zero connection to on the internet.
e.g. my next door neighbour even though I didn’t put my address in and only knew them for a quick chat over the fence.
Now they’ll have so much info about people who’ve never dealt with them due to them being able to slurp up everyone’s contacts with WhatsApp (I have no idea how they can do that in a GDPR compliant way).
If your country isn’t already surveilling you, there are a dozen data companies, many of them who you don’t even know you are interacting with via a third party, willing to sell them and anyone else willing to pay every bit of information they can glean from you.
And it’s amazing what they can glean from you based on nothing but your internet habits.
A white list fire wall is the only way to limit them.
Limit them maybe, but I think we’re kind of screwed. I’ve read articles about algorithms that can get a ridiculous amount of information about you based on how others interact with you.
Oh, yeah. That is why I said limit. Even GitHub has ridiculous tracker junk now. I have most of that blocked. It really sucks that people are so complacent to the onset of feudalism. Chalk it up to ignorance of history. Giving up citizenship in a democracy always has terrible consequences throughout history. People now seem to act like it is crazy to point this out, but are blind about the big picture consequences. Things may seem bad now, but this path will make them massively worse.
It shocked me decades ago when I joined Facebook and they suggested friends that I thought that I had zero connection to on the internet.
e.g. my next door neighbour even though I didn’t put my address in and only knew them for a quick chat over the fence.
Now they’ll have so much info about people who’ve never dealt with them due to them being able to slurp up everyone’s contacts with WhatsApp (I have no idea how they can do that in a GDPR compliant way).