Attention Economy


Thursday, September 28, 2023

Rise of the Surveillance State

Google User Data Has Become a Favorite Police Shortcut
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-09-28/google-user-data-is-police-s-top-shortcut-for-solving-crimes
Investigators increasingly use warrants to obtain location and search data from Google, even for nonviolent cases—and even for people who had nothing to do with the crime. 

A.I., Brain Scans and Cameras: The Spread of Police Surveillance Tech
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/30/technology/police-surveillance-tech-dubai.html
In the Middle East, artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies have become part of everyday policing.