It starts here for places not under authoritarian rule. Once everyone is accustomed to it, the next phase is to introduce the #SocialCreditSystem.

Remember how public #CCTV started? Only politicians were in favour of it at first. Years later, no one cared anymore.

Same strategy.

They are already expecting people will complain about this. But it is here to stay. And people will once again eventually just accept it and ignore it.

Then boom: #SocialCredit is here.

https://www.404media.co/fusus-ai-cameras-took-over-town-america/

#AI #Privacy #Security #NationalSocialCredit

via @bobreyes

AI Cameras Took Over One Small American Town. Now They're Everywhere

Hundreds of documents obtained by 404 Media show how Fusus, a system for linking a town’s security cameras into one central hub and adding AI to them, has spread across the country.

404 Media
The 'Identity Crisis' around the world

On International Identity Day, we are highlighting that the technology-driven ID systems being implemented around the world are leading to new forms of surveillance and exclusion.

Privacy International

Anyone knows what happened to #China's #NationalSocialCredit system they were supposed to implement in full force back in 2020-01-01?

Last I heard, it was postponed because of the pandemic. Did they implement it quietly without the rest of the world knowing?

#SocialCreditSystem

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A group of researchers studied 15 months of human mobility movement data taken from 1.5 million people and concluded that just four points in space and time were sufficient to identify 95 per cent of them, even when the data weren’t of excellent quality.

That was back in 2013.

Nearly 10 years on, surveillance technologies permeate all aspects of our lives. They collect swathes of data from us in various forms, and often without us knowing.

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/commentary/surveillance-cctv-camera-movements-internet-personal-data-3154691

#Surveillance #CCTV #BigBrother #Privacy #Security road to #SocialCredit #NationalSocialCredit

Commentary: We’re all being watched, all the time

Surveillance technologies permeate all aspects of our lives, collecting swathes of data from us in various forms, and often without us knowing, says this surveillance expert.

CNA