The tools now exist to review every action and communication made by every citizen of every country without human intervention, and to sort those actions based on specific parameters set by a single person. Who will be the first one to set these parameters, and what will they be?
Not a shower thought
I believe Santa Claus has already done this
The news the other day about being able to be tracked inside my own home through the signals of my WiFi router was a bit shocking. I mean, I knew that sort of thing was possible having worked for a wireless internet service provider, but never thought about it applied to surveillance.
Yes, and of course wifi is just one frequency band. That kind of technique could also be used with other frequency bands, I wonder what the resolution of 5G is for that kind of telemetry.
V for Vendetta missed the time frame by maybe a decade or two, not much more than that.
1984 missed that our telescreens would be portable and the hate isn’t limited to two minutes per day.
That and missed the capitalist angle of making lots of money from the hate.
Right here and now I can inspect your comment history. That’s similar.
What can I do with that? What do people generally do with that?
(Unless you are a moderator. Their stuff is kept hidden. Funny that )
I spent $5 dollars cash buying a hotdog from the Street Vendor last night during the fireworks. Was this written down somewhere or otherwise can this be traced back to me?
And yeah, street vendors raise prices around festivals lol. But I needed a snack so I paid up.
Yes, by the traffick camera on the corner tracking your gate up to the hotdog stand, and your phone showing your location by the hotdog stand and how long you stood there. Not to mention, you just wrote that transaction down here in public.
But the point wasn’t about the tracking, it was about sorting the data. The data acquisition has existed for years, but was never useful because it could never be processed in an accessible manner. Now AI can sort through the hours of traffick camera footage, identify your gate, and show every location you appeared on camera in the past 24 hours. It can also check cell tower records and record every cell phone that stood by the hotdog stand for more than 60 seconds, and crossreference the hardware IDs and Sim cards on those phones against carrier databases to match the walking gates of the people on camera to their name, address, SSN via credit check, and bank information.
Now AI can sort through the hours of traffick camera footage
No it can’t, not without major hallucinations and/or basic errors (ex: Black People tend to be misidentified).
That’s the big thing about this AI push, it’s subtle mistakes are fucking people over right now. If AI actually worked reliably that’s another thing. But right now, people are mostly pretending that AI works and/or ignorant of its flaws.
Just doing the basics such as number plate recognition works well enough that the integration of these services has become a problem. I believe there is some controversy in the US about this now.
To be perfectly pedantic, absolutely.
Anywhere that has street vendors is in view of surveillance cameras.
See below. The post wasn’t about data acquisition, it was about data sorting.
