The video below highlight a detail: Many public video cameras are accessible on the Internet. No problem? Well, no, because together with other tools it becomes a breeze to identify you.
Face recognition and anybody knows who you are. Car plate registry and again address granted. You go to work on this specific road every day at 8am? Your house may be empty then? So face, data, patterns... there are hundreds of ways to link data and therefore countless possibilities to follow you.
We don't care so much for advertising since mostly the tracking is harmless, but if we talk about "anybody" on the Internet following you, it is not quite difficult to imagine quite a few very nasty applications.
Most of these applications used to be difficult and technical to implement. Not anymore with AI, and that's when the true nightmare begins.
Privacy is important. When our identity is compromised, we may lose more than a few banknotes. The explosion of tracking devices and cameras is slowly building a network that will soon be not only inescapable but with AI, aware of our presence at any given time in a specific location.
Is this really the future we want?
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