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.
It shocked me decades ago when I joined Facebook and they suggested friends that I thought that I had zero connection to on the internet.
e.g. my next door neighbour even though I didn’t put my address in and only knew them for a quick chat over the fence.
Now they’ll have so much info about people who’ve never dealt with them due to them being able to slurp up everyone’s contacts with WhatsApp (I have no idea how they can do that in a GDPR compliant way).
It shocked me decades ago when I joined Facebook and they suggested friends that I thought that I had zero connection to on the internet.
e.g. my next door neighbour even though I didn’t put my address in and only knew them for a quick chat over the fence.
Now they’ll have so much info about people who’ve never dealt with them due to them being able to slurp up everyone’s contacts with WhatsApp (I have no idea how they can do that in a GDPR compliant way).