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Mass Surveillance

links: AC1 TOC - Intro - Index

Five eyes

The Five Eyes (FVEY) is an intelligence alliance comprising Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

Building Blocks

  • Travel Patterns
  • Behaviour Analytics

A lot of math is used to identify targets. Who is innocent and who is not. The US kills based on metadata but they only have percentages if somebody is a valid target for them. Even if they are 99.82% certain the collateral damage is enormous. (343,800 innocent citizens for Pakistan for example)

Conclusion

  • Computers have no sense of ethics.
  • Physical reality (including code) beats human law.
    • \(\rightarrow\) We need to be careful about which technology we adopt.

links: AC1 TOC - Intro - Index