… The privacy group Surveillance Watch has found that 68 foreign companies currently supply surveillance technology to Mexico, for everything from tracking migrants to camera, data, and phone surveillance systems. …
… Both systems will tap the country’s digital public infrastructure, including the Aadhaar citizen ID, the UPI payment gateway, the DigiLocker verification system, and the ONDC digital commerce platform. “It’s about decentralization and democratization of AI,” Ramesh Raskar, an associate professor at… …
… Surveillance whistleblower Edward Snowden has criticized World — which was called Worldcoin until October 2024 — for “cataloguing eyeballs.” The company, which claims to have verified more than 18 million people across 160 countries, continues to expand worldwide. …
… AI firms comfortable with the government’s definition of “lawful use” are being rewarded: Anthropic insisting its models not be used for domestic mass surveillance and fully autonomous weapons resulted in the Pentagon walking away from it, and toward OpenAI . …