AI is already in mass surveillance. Flock Cameras, and now this SignalTrace that is going to use additional device fingerprinting to track where you are and who you are specifically. These companies that are vendors for it are openly proud of it. They simply do not care anymore. I said it in a different thread, but ever since the mass surveillance was exposed by Snowden and others, the government agencies just laughed and didn't care anymore about it being clandestine. People simply did not care about mass surveillance and just went on with their niggercattle lives. I did at the time as well, I was just a freshman in high school and only cared about video games, so I had no idea what was going on, then once I was older and started seeing a lot more "personal ads" infesting my devices that I went down the rabbit hole and really got interested in how bad it's been and getting.
The most insulting thing about it all is that
if (big "if", I know) it was used for genuinely beneficial purposes, it's unfathomably powerful and useful.
They
could use this shit to solve cold murder cases, put a literal end to human trafficking (and drug trafficking for that matter), solve and stop just about any crime involving any kind of financial fraud (whether the fraud is the goal or a means to an end), root out and stop every terrorist plot out there, catch every leaker, refute and disprove every lie by every propagandist (along with rooting out their funding networks and sources), and make this world an immeasurably better place ...
... but doing so would implicate far too many wealthy and powerful people, from politicians to deep state department heads to billionaires, and so the fucking cunts don't have the balls to do it. Nah, instead they've deployed this obnoxious global dragnet to peddle fucking ads, track people's movements for petty crime enforcement (while blocking useful enforcement, e.g. cities ditching Flock to avoid it being used to deport actual criminals), and correcting "wrongthink." It wouldn't even be a particularly hard sell to most people to grant the "wielders" of this crime-ending tech indemnity (or at least cap their punishment for shit they're caught up in at "you lose your job and your access to this shit once it's fingered you") but they still won't do it because of the risk of having to give up power.
I fucking hate them for it, so fucking much. The most well-connected, high-power, high-capacity pattern-matching and trace-following systems ever devised by humans, and they won't use it for anything beneficial. Only to sell us shit and hurt us.
