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Geek_King@lemmy.world 10 months ago
How far can this type of intrusive surveillance go and still have the response of your average citizen be “I have nothing to hid”. What happened to the America full of private people who greatly valued that privacy? The idea of this software grabbing live footage from city owned cameras all the way to live cell phone feeds, to door bell cameras, AND managing all those fields with AI setup to look for certain clothing or objects.
And putting all that power into the hands of fallible humans in the form of police. This has already been abused, I guarantee it, tracking an ex, racial profiling, you name it, this level of power isn’t something we should stomach anyone having let alone the police.
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
circuscritic@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
You left out Clinton, Obama, and Biden, as if the security state isn’t a bipartisan issue, just like neoliberal economic policies.
AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Yeah! Doesn’t matter what side you’re on, politicians in general love privacy for the masses the same way gøøgl€ loves ad blockers for yt.
cantsurf@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Now just combine this with cell phone tracking data and we’ll know where everyone is, where they’re going, what theyre doing, what they think, how much money they have, their political opinions, what they’re buying, who they’re fucking. It’ll be a crime free utopia!
STRIKINGdebate2@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The answer. Privatised surveillance. Of course if anything like setting up ai cameras to monitor people was an official government act they would be uproar so instead they get private companies to make deals with each local municipality. We all know no one really pays that much attention to what happens locally anymore. We are so tuned into the bigger picture that we fall the register the enemy at the gate. We warned about face scans and the constant surveillance in China yet it seems to be quietly becoming a reality in the US as well.
Capitalism is so engrained in us that we never stop to think about what putting our safety into the hands of for profit companies even entails.