I want to say this gave me hope overall and the presentation was encouraging… but I can’t lie - I didn’t really like hearing that there’s basically no way out of this ‘Minority Report’ scenario or that we "can’t beat this with technology".
Personally, I’m not so much interested in unmasking ICE. I am more interested in my own privacy as a citizen. And perhaps there was a search for the silver lining but it came across as, ‘Oh hey, look how we’re working on even further improving facial recognition and spying on society as a whole… we’ll actually be able to also reveal militarized government employees.’
But that’s not actually a counter-argument for why this is really bad. It doesn’t address the deeper, truly worrisome issue at all. Strengthening surveillance so we can monitor authorities is not liberation… it’s just surveillance pointed in one more direction. And honestly, it feels a bit delusional to believe that this would give people any real power in holding authorities accountable.
It’s not a satisfactory solution for the kind of world I want to live in. There’s gotta be a real way to neutralize and stop this mass surveillance scenario that’s already well underway.
What do you think
@gladstein? How does #freedomtech actually neutralize and disarm this dystopian future?
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