France wants to make olympics-style surveillance permanent
therealnews.com
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.
  • rockSlayer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    53·
    9 hours ago

    Of course they fucking do. Just like how the police were supercharged in LA during the Olympics and they’re still one of the most militarized units in the country today. Countries use the Olympics as an excuse to slip in shit that would never fly otherwise.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldMEnglish
    152·
    9 hours ago

    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.

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldMEnglish
        51·
        8 hours ago

        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.

        • j4k3@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          8 hours ago

          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.