This paper is really important, presenting empirical evidence of the imbrication bet. AI & the surveillance biz model. This is notable particularly given that most production surveillance tech is proprietary, its existence and use hidden from the public.
@Mer__edith The only winning move is to refuse to contribute, buy and use #SurveillanceTech and to demand #FLOSS & #FLOSH as well as #decentralization!
@kkarhan Sure, except generally we are not the customers/users of surveillance tech--we are the subjects of its use, and it's not up to us.
@Mer__edith Well, it is up to us, by boycotting businesses that produce, research, use, employ, support, sell or buy that tech as well as consequently only accepting tech and solutions that make it hard if not nearly-impossible to do these kinds of #MassSurveillance...
This necessitates everything to be #OpenSource'd and #decentralized properly and refusal to use any #centralized #SingleVendor and/or #SingleProvider solution whatsoever...
So, live in a cave, then? The burden of surveillance self-defense should not fall to individuals or require us to restrict our participation in society. I shouldn't have to wear weird makeup to foil facial recognition cameras just to go buy some food at the grocery store. "Boycotting" that store only works if you have multiple options and if all those options aren't also using facial recognition software. And the Ring doorbell cams and automatic license plate readers that tracked you on the way to the store? Can't exactly boycott those. Surveillance is privacy pollution and needs to be regulated (out of existence, imo) just like air or water pollution.
These are policy choices, not personal ones.
@Mikal @Mer__edith OFC not.
Vote for people who are against #MassSurveillance and if they don't exist, candidate!
Refuse to participate in #SurveillanceCapitalism to the maximum extent possible!!
Noone forces you to use #Govware (i.e. #Windows) or buy #iPhones or #AmazonEcho devices...
And if you need help finding #alternatives, sites like @alternativeto / https://alternativeto.net exist that allow you to filter for what you want...
@Mikal @Mer__edith And yes, #MassSurveillance and #BulkSurveillance should be #banned harder than DIY machineguns shooting carfentanyl-laced bullets.
Consider supporting your local #camover group my mapping #Cameras in your area...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GCsd2TJKjQ