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Think only authoritarian regimes spy on their citizens?

Use of AI surveillance technology is becoming the global norm, even in liberal democracies.

Almost half the world’s countries now deploy AI surveillance systems. So says a new report, The Global Expansion of AI Surveillance, from the #Carnegie_Endowment_for_International_Peace (▻https://carnegieendowment.org/2019/09/17/global-expansion-of-ai-surveillance-pub-79847). Such technologies vary from “#smart_city” projects, which use real-time data on residents to aid delivery of public services and enhance policing, to facial recognition systems, to border security, to governments spying on political dissidents.

The main driver is China. The tech company Huawei alone is responsible for providing AI surveillance technology to at least 50 countries. But it’s not just Beijing pushing such technology. Western companies, from IBM to Palantir, are deeply involved. In Saudi Arabia, for instance, Huawei is helping create smart cities, Google and Amazon are building cloud computing servers for government surveillance and the UK arms firm BAE is providing mass monitoring systems.

While authoritarian countries are investing heavily in such technology, it is most widespread in democracies. “Liberal democratic governments,” the report observes, “are aggressively using AI tools to police borders, apprehend potential criminals, monitor citizens for bad behaviour and pull out suspected terrorists from crowds.” Projects range from Baltimore’s secret use of drones for daily surveillance of the city’s residents, to Marseille’s mass monitoring project, built largely by the Chinese firm ZTE and given the very Orwellian name of Big Data of Public Tranquility, to the array of advanced surveillance techniques being deployed on the US-Mexico border.

The technologies raise major ethical issues and questions about civil liberties. Yet even before we’ve begun to ask such questions, the technology has become so ubiquitous as to render the debate almost redundant. That should be as worrying as the technology itself.

▻https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/sep/22/think-only-authoritarian-regimes-spy-on-their-citizens
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Britain funds research into drones that decide who they kill, says report
▻https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/10/autonomous-drones-that-decide-who-they-kill-britain-funds-research

Investigation reveals that technology for autonomous lethal weapons with artificial intelligence is being funded by MoD Technologies that could unleash a generation of lethal weapons systems requiring little or no human interaction are being funded by the Ministry of Defence, according to a new report. The development of autonomous military systems – dubbed “killer robots” by campaigners opposed to them – is deeply contentious. Earlier this year, Google withdrew from the Pentagon’s Project (...)

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L’Algérie a acquis une technologie de surveillance de masse qui permet d’espionner les emails et les téléphones
▻https://www.tsa-algerie.com/lalgerie-a-acquis-une-technologie-de-surveillance-de-masse-qui-permet-d

L’Algérie a acquis une technologie de surveillance de masse qui permet d’espionner les emails et les téléphones BAE Systems, groupe aéronautique et de défense britannique a procédé au cours des dernières années à la vente d’« outil de surveillance massive à des régimes répressifs », à travers l’une de ses firmes danoises, rapporte The Guardian qui cite la BBC. Parmi les États qui se seraient procuré ce matériel de surveillance on retrouve l’Algérie, l’Arabie saoudite, les Émirats arabes unis, Oman, le Qatar et (...)

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BAE ’secretly sold mass surveillance technology to repressive regimes’
▻https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/jun/15/bae-mass-surveillance-technology-repressive-regimes

Documents reveal official concerns that deal with countries including Saudi Arabia could put UK security in danger, says BBC BAE, Britain’s biggest arms company, secretly sold mass surveillance technology to six Middle Eastern governments that have been criticised for repressing their citizens, the BBC has reported. The sophisticated technology can be used to spy on a huge number of people’s emails and mobile phones, triggering accusations from human rights campaigners that it is being used (...)

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BAE Systems Sells Internet Surveillance Gear to United Arab Emirates
▻https://theintercept.com/2016/08/26/bae-systems-sells-internet-surveillance-gear-to-united-arab-emirates

A Danish subsidiary of British defense contractor BAE Systems is selling an internet surveillance package to the government of the United Arab Emirates, a country known for spying on, imprisoning, and torturing dissidents and activists, according to documents obtained by Lasse Skou Andersen of the Danish newspaper Dagbladet Information. The documents from the Danish Business Authority reveal an ongoing contract between the defense conglomerate, BAE Systems Applied Intelligence A/S, and the (...)

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