Police in U.S. say technology is helpful but researchers say Canada should hesitate before using it

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    1 year ago

    I wonder how disastrously bad things will need to get before it finally breaks through into public consciousness that maybe putting surveillance cameras everywhere was a bad idea. I expect we’ll find out in a couple of decades.

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      This isn’t really the issue.

      The real issue is that people have become so soft, so INCREDIBLY dependant on convenience, that they have given up all control. Having autonomy/privacy/ownership over your own environment is just too much work. It’s easier to just let someone else handle the surveillance system for you. What could go wrong?

      This issue of complacency plagues just about everything, from cloud computing and banking to transportation and housing.

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        1 year ago

        wall-e except it’ll be even more dystopian and the robot love story will instead be a deathmatch between rival corporation robo-wardogs

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      Surveillance cameras are fine imo. It’s connecting those cameras to some random server you don’t control that’s the concerning part.

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      I’m really unsure of how this will play out. Gen Z seems to be way more okay with stuff like this and I think it’s just a general mindset shift that I don’t really see changing. Gen Z tends to constantly share their location with every acquaintance, on snapchat, etc all the time.

      As much as stuff like this freaks me out and seems many steps too far, younger generations don’t, so I feel this is going to get worse over time, not better.