… Civil liberties groups have raised concerns that the scale of the surveillance operation will create privacy issues: Everyday citizens will be tracked, without necessarily reducing gang-related violence. …
… AI can process reams of surveillance information, satellite imagery, and other intelligence, and provide insights for potential strikes. …
… 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… …
… Age checks can compromise user privacy, increase surveillance, and exclude marginalized users. …
… That raised concerns about what the vehicles would do during other emergencies, such as an earthquake. …
… Its harms are diffuse: disinformation , labor displacement , surveillance, market concentration. …
… 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 . …
… There could be money laundering, antitrust concerns, or facilitating work in a sanctioned country. There can also be ethical concerns about copyrights or the environment . …
… Kenya drops its yearlong government probe over privacy concerns, paving the way for Orbs to come back . …