- The pretext of public safety is used to impose digital measures
- These tools are useful for controlling and oppressing the population
- The systems of alerts and labels against "dangerous content," are actually a form of subtle censorship.
- This also involve constant surveillance and the erosion of privacy.
Both governments and corporations have concealed their surveillance initiatives under the pretext of protecting public safety.
What appear to be necessary security measures are, in fact, sophisticated tools designed to suppress dissent and infringe on individual privacy.
Labeling and warning laws
Bills have recently been introduced that mandate warning labels on social media and monitoring AI chatbot conversations.
This type of legislation to monitor and review AI interactions has been justified as supposedly necessary to prevent misuse or malicious activities.
These measures ironically present it as protection against misinformation or harmful content, but they are not genuine efforts to inform or protect users; on the contrary, they are part of a broader system of harassment directed at dissidents and critics.
With this, for example, they can easily label any information as misinformation, thereby creating a legal framework for censorship.
Speech patrolling
By imposing alerts that mark certain content or user behavior, authorities and technology corporations can legitimately monitor and constantly control what individuals see and say, eroding privacy.
What is described as a security measure is clearly a tool to silence dissent and intimidate those who are critical of certain policies, like digitalization
In addition, monitoring AI chatbot conversations is an invasion of privacy disguised as a security protocol.
However, this monitoring allows authorities to access the most intimate details of private conversations.
Eroding Privacy
This makes it possible to create a surveillance network that extends over personal data that should only be used by individuals. A system that reviews all conversations, turns each interaction into an alleged evidence, of potential dissent.
Such measures can easily serve other purposes such as tracking and intimidating dissidents, activists and ordinary citizens, removing freedom of expression and fostering an environment of suspicion and fear.
The justification for such invasive measures under the pretext of security it's a scam. By framing these warnings and monitoring systems as essential to security, they are actually normalizing surveillance as inevitable for modern life.
This rising tide of oversight correlates with a broader pattern of surveillance and oversight of private conversations happening around the world.
In the Name of Security: Monitoring Online Chats
