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Side-effects of massive surveillance

mercredi 10 juillet 2019 à 02:00

When a robot's right hand doesn't know what its left hand is doing, it will insist there is no reason why it should know. It may even claim that the two hands are two separate robots.

The details are lacking, but I suspect that part of the cause of this problem was that the parking system knew who was parking there. In other words, this was a harmful side-effect of massive surveillance, in addition to the fundamental injustice of surveillance.