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We never voted for an insecure network of cameras on every street corner, and we're certainly not being asked if we're comfortable with access to this network being given to police officers with a penchant for abusing it.

— Decoder with Nilay Patel
2w ago

We see private companies increasingly at the center of law enforcement operations that have profit incentives, carrying out surveillance of what ordinary people going about their ordinary lives are doing. And I think people inherently understand that we need law enforcement in this country, but there are natural, inborn limits to how much they watch us, how much they hover over us, how much they see us, and robots and A.I. have the potential to eviscerate those limits.

1mo ago

I find that in general, people talk a big game about privacy concerns, and then they will give Uber all of their data. Think about Uber. With a hack and a thin layer of AI, you could pretty easily determine if someone just terminated a pregnancy, their HIV status, if they're having affairs, their sexual orientation.

2mo ago

By recording the screens of every Meta employee which is very controversial and bold but actually ripping that band-aid off and just saying hey we're we're an AI training company now and everyone's going to be recording their screens and their flows and all how all their work gets done. They basically got like a frontier leading AI data labeling company for free.

2mo ago

With a hack and a thin layer of AI, you could pretty easily determine if someone just terminated a pregnancy, their HIV status, if they're having affairs, their sexual orientation. You could just figure out a lot about people based on when and where they are going. And yet, we still give Uber all of our data because we love seeing that our QX60 is just around the corner.

2mo ago

The bottom line is that smart toys open a digital door into children's playtime, bedroom and hearts. And if you're thinking about opening that door, my advice to you would be to take a very careful look at what's on the other side.

3mo ago

Data that law enforcement would require a warrant to collect if they did it directly, they now can just go buy for a few dollars from private companies with no court order and no probable cause. The surveillance allows them to circumvent the protections that we have written into law.

3mo ago

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