Live mass surveillance: a tool of oppression, not crime prevention

My latest article for the Minnesota Women's Press is about how 24/7 live-streamed video mass surveillance, augmented with facial recognition software and biased algorithms, is being advocated as a crime prevention/reduction tool when it's really a tool of oppression, privacy violation and surveillance capitalism.

Two of the mayoral candidates for Brooklyn Park, MN mayor have called for video mass surveillance, which has been used to identify and target protesters against police violence in other cities. With the latest police violence, protests, and civil unrest spreading to that suburb from nearby Brooklyn Center, watch out for more calls to turn the suburbs and cities into #surveillance territories in the name of safety.

https://www.womenspress.com/why-video...