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The Internet Enabled Mass Surveillance. AI Will Enable Mass Spying.

Schneier on Security

Spying and surveillance are different but related things. If I hired that same private detective to put you under surveillance, I would get a different report: where you went, whom you talked to, what you purchased, what you did. Before the internet, putting someone under surveillance was expensive and time-consuming.

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AI and Mass Spying

Schneier on Security

Spying and surveillance are different but related things. If I hired that same private detective to put you under surveillance, I would get a different report: where you went, whom you talked to, what you purchased, what you did. Before the internet, putting someone under surveillance was expensive and time-consuming.

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AI and the Evolution of Social Media

Schneier on Security

Today, tech’s darling is artificial intelligence. 1: Advertising The role advertising plays in the internet arose more by accident than anything else. When commercialization first came to the internet, there was no easy way for users to make micropayments to do things like viewing a web page.

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“Ethnicity recognition” tool listed on surveillance camera app store built by fridge-maker’s video analytics startup

Malwarebytes

The bizarre promotional video promises “Face analysis based on best of breed Artificial Intelligence algorithms for Business Intelligence and Digital Signage applications.” Bosch, known more for its line of refrigerators, ovens, and dishwashers, also develops and sells an entire suite of surveillance cameras.

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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI

Schneier on Security

Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration will drive the next era of growth, wealth, and human flourishing. ” In previous decades, the internet itself was considered an electronic frontier. It’s a scary metaphor.

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Facebook and Cambridge Analytica

Schneier on Security

Harvard Business School professor Shoshana Zuboff calls it " surveillance capitalism." Surveillance capitalism takes this one step further. Google's surveillance isn't in the news, but it's startlingly intimate. That phone is probably the most intimate surveillance device ever invented. We never lie to our search engines.

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In conversation: Bruce Schneier on AI-powered mass spying

Malwarebytes

For decades, governments and companies have surveilled the conversations, movements, and behavior of the public. And then the internet came along and made that a whole lot easier. But cryptographer and computer security professional Bruce Schneier believes that’s going to change, all because of the advent of artificial intelligence.