Company crosses a dangerous line by beginning to offer AI suspicion-generation functions
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US | Surveillance Company Flock Now Using AI to Report Us to Police if it Thinks Our Movement Patterns Are “Suspicious”
Submitted 7 months ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to technology@lemmy.zip
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rustyricotta@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 7 months ago
There is so many problems with this
mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
Even amidst all the other insane news, this stands out as a remarkable and even surprisingly bad leap forward. It’s not like I consented, like when people put trackers in their car for insurance discounts. I’m literally just going out into public, and that gives a company the right to record and analyze me and my car and report me to the police? I don’t even get the chance to sign up to opt-out, which even that would be fucked up? And of course the algorithms could be anything - going to gay bars, going to libraries, etc.
swelter_spark@reddthat.com 7 months ago
Finally, I feel like my town’s obsession with keeping expenses low might be a good thing.
bdot@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Flock? as in sheep? is that name for a surveillance company revealing how they feel about civilians?
mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
It really does feel like a lazy too-on-the-nose name from a sci-fi dystopia writer who REALLY wants to make sure you get the point that the company is evil. It just sounds creepy without even getting into the obvious connotations.
Doomsider@lemmy.world 7 months ago
These system are nowhere near ready to be used on the public. The companies and bureaucrats that allow this should be locked up for gross negligence.