Surveillance as Social Disorder
Surveillance as a Social Disorder
Forms of social control are expanding rapidly — justified by the need to combat “terrorism”. #Surveillance shifts from the exceptional to the everyday, from "dangerous" classes to the general population. The crowd is no longer "solitary" and anonymous: it is "naked."
Digital images, facial recognition, and #data mining track and profile individuals, while video surveillance and #algorithms predict future actions. #AI analyzes vast data to predict behavior, leading to preemptive measures that compromise #freedom and autonomy.
Soon, individuals may be judged by predicted behaviors, eroding dignity and autonomy in the name of "#security."
What dignity remains for a person who has become a prisoner of a past and a future entirely in the hands of others, from which they must resign themselves to being expropriated?
Andrea Togni is a philosopher and a teacher also involved in Monero privacy policy group. Check out his papers on privacy and surveillance: https://independent.academia.edu/
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