#Larry #Ellison,
who briefly became the world's second-wealthiest person last week when his net worth surpassed #Jeff #Bezos' for a short time,
⚠️outlined a scenario where AI models would analyze footage from security cameras, police body cams, doorbell cameras, and vehicle dash cams.

♦️"Citizens will be on their best behavior because we are constantly recording and reporting everything that's going on," Ellison said,

describing what he sees as the benefits from automated oversight from AI and automated alerts for when crime takes place.

"We're going to have supervision," he continued.

"...if there's a problem, AI will report the problem and report it to the appropriate person."

Ellison's vision bears more than a passing resemblance to the cautionary world portrayed in #George #Orwell's prescient novel 1984.

In Orwell's fiction, the totalitarian government of Oceania uses ubiquitous "telescreens" to monitor citizens constantly,
creating a society where privacy no longer exists and independent thought becomes nearly impossible.

But Orwell's famous phrase
"Big Brother is watching you"
would take on new meaning in Ellison's tech-driven scenario, where AI systems, rather than human watchers, would serve as the ever-vigilant eyes of authority.

Once considered a sci-fi trope, automated systems are already becoming a reality:
Similar automated CCTV surveillance systems have already been trialed in #London Underground and at the 2024 #Olympics.

#China has been using automated systems (including AI) to surveil its citizens for years.

In 2022, Reuters reported that Chinese firms had developed AI software to sort data collected on residents using a network of surveillance cameras deployed across cities
-- and rural areas as part of China's "#sharp #eyes" campaign from 2015 to 2020.

This "one person, one file" technology reportedly organizes collected data on individual Chinese citizens,
leading to what The Economic Times called a "road to digital totalitarianism."

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*#HybriderKrieg durch #Sabotage gegen die #EU #China #Russland*

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"Ein 👉#chinesisches Schiff, das im Verdacht steht, Unterwasserkommunikationskabel von EU-Ländern zu beschädigen, lag kürzlich im Hafen der Russischen Föderation.👈

Die Rede ist von dem Massengutfrachter #YiPeng, der Telekommunikationskabel zwischen #Finnland und #Deutschland sowie zwischen #Schweden und #Litauen [gekapp[t hab]en könnte.

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A Chinese vessel, which is suspected of damaging underwater communication cables of EU countries, was recently in the port of the Russian Federation.

We are talking about the bulk carrier Yi Peng, which could cut telecommunication cables connecting Finland with Germany and Sweden with Lithuania.

The bulk carrier is now trying to leave the Baltic Sea, while a Danish warship is following it.
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One of many earlier #British #ColonialCrimes in #SouthEastAsia. The #BriggsPlan in #Malaysia.

The Nazi regime during WWII forever gave the term #ConcentrationCamp a name symbolic of #atrocity, so when British #colonizers once again visited the idea of #ForcedRelocation of #IndigenousPeoples to isolate them they needed another name for the enclaves. They came up with #NewVillages. The New Villages were created under the Briggs Plan, which was developed to combat the communist insurgency in #Malaya during the 1950 #MalayanEmergency. The plan was prepared by Sir Harold Briggs, a British General who was the Director of Operations in Malaya.

#Britain lost the Malayan Peninsula and their fortress at Singapore to the Japanese during WWII and reoccupied their former dominion after the fall of Japan. Among the many difficulties the British encountered was the presence of roughly a half-million #Chinese in rural Malaya, most working as farmers working small plots of land for their own sustenance on land they did not own or lease. The British administration regarded these Chinese as squatters and found them a problem because they were physically distant from the machinery of British authority, which most of the Malayan population was not happy to see return to their country.

When the Malayan #CommunistParty received support from armed #guerrillas from Malaya and #China, the British, intent on restoring #Imperial rule to the peninsula, looked with additional distrust upon these rural Chinese. While some of the Chinese were certainly sympathetic to the communists, most were indifferent. The British concern was that the communist #insurgents would receive support from the squatters in the form of food, neglecting the fact that the majority of the Chinese squatters were barely able to grow enough to support themselves. The Briggs plan required the forced relocation of the Chinese.

The New Villages isolated the Chinese, and they were guarded by Malayan police and British Military Police and some troops. The Chinese could not leave the villages except under escort and nobody was allowed in without the permission of the guards, making them effectively prisons. The villages were built with running water and electricity, amenities absent from most Malayan villages, and health care and some educational facilities were provided. This caused resentment towards the British from the Malay outside the villages, who didn’t receive the same amenities, and the Chinese, who resented the forced relocation settlement.

Although the New Villages, of which 450 were built, were an improvement over the forced detention camps of the Boer War, and death rates in the villages were roughly the same as for the rest of the country, there were racially motivated #CollectivePunishments directed towards the Chinese population in the villages. #Deportation without trial by the administration was a common punishment for the Chinese. Law within the villages was the decision of the British. Many of the villages are still standing and in recent years have been restored to serve as tourist destinations by the Malaysian government with support from China.

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