It isn't just a surveillance state, they are 100% building a behavior prediction algorithm state.
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For decades people have been warming about inverted totalitarianism.. where private companies do the heavy lifting in controlling and surveillance or the population. Very few listened. Now that we are approaching complete sacrifice of your privacy to these companies, people are finally waking up. But it may be too late.
Capitalists are constantly telling on themselves.
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We weren't jokingly saying the Chinese are living under it, though.
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I wasn't joking when I said the ccp spies on their citizens and I wasn't joking when I said the US spies on their citizens after the Patroit Act. The normalization of a surveillance police state all across the world is terrifying.
Uk too.
I seriously need to get this giant big cyberpunk writing/worldbuilding project of mine on the road.
Because at the moment, cyberpunk is becoming aspirational. Reality is just, dunno, cyberpunk but dumb as hell.
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Chinese citizen would be living under
Correction: Chinese citizens already living under a surveillance state. UK and now US and also many other countries is merely learning from the best(worst). Mandatory age verification for socmed and game? China already have that years ago. ISP level blocking? Great Firewall of China is there from the beginning.
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And what's worse, eventually all the information gathered from all this surveillance will be turned into training data for AI. So right now, for all intents and purposes, none of us has any true privacy. And one of the most deeply damaging aspects of this is that it changes how we think. Subconsciously, when we're engaged in thinking and we have even a brief idea that our thoughts might somehow, someday be known (through the actions of a surveillance state, for example), we reframe our ideas so that one day they will be known by someone else; they will have an audience. This is a much different state than when we're able to think with the freedom of knowing, even subconsciously, that our ideas are completely private.
Always thought it was weird that they would scoff at their "social credit score" system. Emphasis on "social". As if that was the fucked up part.
The surveillance state is not just in the US. China and the UK love that shit too. Pretty much any government with the money and will for it is doing it for the benefit of a digital panopticon.
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We're following China's lead in the adapting-to-social-scale game
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Ah yes the old X>Y argument when in reality X<Y but is moving towards it. It's so effective at driving voter apathy.
The problem is that state agents can use surveillance tech or surveillance services with no regulatory review on how this technology interacts with the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States, what is specifically supposed to protect Americans from this sort of stuff.
This is partly due to the presumption of regularity, the assumption by courts that law enforcement follows rules, even when we know they historically do not. (And DHS is even worse).
It's a separate problem that private companies can also buy this data. They shouldn't have the right to surveil Americans for private purposes any more than the state does.
Also be aware that some districts that are ending their contracts with Flock Safety are quietly switching over to other ALPR services such as Axon. Don't let your district get away with it.
what fucking dashcams connect to the internet? and why would someone want to pay for a dataplan for it?
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Stop using their services. Call a taxi.
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Aren't uber and lyft vehicles privately owned cars? They can't do that...
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Seems like USA is trying to be everything bad with china with none of the good parts
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