AI Surveillance and Social Progress
2026-07-10T19:23:39Z•ce2f7efd2affa9011bd38014d0ff84cd7f1582c347a6e476c7f453987ff09fba
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What happened
This collection of Schneier blog items highlights converging risks from AI, surveillance, cryptography, and cybercrime: AI-powered video and vehicle‑fingerprint systems enable near‑real‑time mass surveillance and novel search capabilities (natural language queries over video) that threaten privacy and civil liberties; commercial and law‑enforcement tools (e.g., Flock) can track vehicles without plates and build persistent fingerprints; AI/LLMs are already being abused to automate large‑scale scams (Google is suing a group that used Gemini to create phishing templates); generative AI changes on
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- 2026-07-10T19:23:39Z
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