Surveillance Of People Is More “Pervasive And Normalised” Than Previously Thought, New Study Shows

Research into computer vision development - a field of artificial intelligence (AI) where computers learn to "see" and interpret information and images - has significantly contributed to pervasive surveillance of people and their habits. In addition, it seems this rise in surveillance has coincided with a rise in obfuscating language that either normalizes or attempts to hide the existence of the surveillance. When it comes to gathering information, surveillance agencies have a few options. Firstly, they can collect the data directly from the infrastructure carrying internet traffic. This is called "upstream surveillance" and tends to involve intercepting information directly from…