Predicting and planning multiple scenarios is a good idea, maybe I should do this.
It’s difficult to pinpoint what “current level” implies. As long as there are missing pieces, it’s arguably still in the future not the present. For example, at a technical level there may be no difficulty in hiring 10,000 drone pilots to surveill a city; using off-the-shelf drones and existing workforce of drone pilots. But reality is that this has not happened yet in any city, and there might be some reasons why.
If current level only means literally the things that have already been deployed, then reading the current news already gives you a fair description of the consequences. Otherwise there is again guesswork on how data will be collected and used in hypothetical futures, not how it is being used at present.
If you could elaborate what you mean by current level that would be good. For instance do you mean examples where the data is already been collected but not used, and you want to to forecast consequences of it being used?
Yes, I mean the current deployed level. News hasn’t really covered anything major in the last few years on the topic, and I don’t know if it’s stagnated or the reporting has just given up.
I think there are news publications and independent people covering these issues they’re just not the most popular ones. If you follow the right people you’ll get the latest news.
I understand there’s value in someone (maybe me, maybe AI) collecting and summarising all the news in one place. Thanks for the suggestion.
Stated without endorsement:
Websites, interviews, books, twitter handles of:
Freedom of the press foundation
Signal
Wikileaks
Freedom house
DEFCON conferences
Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, Meredith Whittaker, Ross Ulbricht, Moxie Marlinspike, Matthew Green
There’s also publications on foreign affairs and health of democracy in various countries, from which you can extract the relevant articles.
Hi Dagon
Thanks for this reply.
Predicting and planning multiple scenarios is a good idea, maybe I should do this.
It’s difficult to pinpoint what “current level” implies. As long as there are missing pieces, it’s arguably still in the future not the present. For example, at a technical level there may be no difficulty in hiring 10,000 drone pilots to surveill a city; using off-the-shelf drones and existing workforce of drone pilots. But reality is that this has not happened yet in any city, and there might be some reasons why.
If current level only means literally the things that have already been deployed, then reading the current news already gives you a fair description of the consequences. Otherwise there is again guesswork on how data will be collected and used in hypothetical futures, not how it is being used at present.
If you could elaborate what you mean by current level that would be good. For instance do you mean examples where the data is already been collected but not used, and you want to to forecast consequences of it being used?
Yes, I mean the current deployed level. News hasn’t really covered anything major in the last few years on the topic, and I don’t know if it’s stagnated or the reporting has just given up.
Oh okay
I think there are news publications and independent people covering these issues they’re just not the most popular ones. If you follow the right people you’ll get the latest news.
I understand there’s value in someone (maybe me, maybe AI) collecting and summarising all the news in one place. Thanks for the suggestion.
Stated without endorsement:
Websites, interviews, books, twitter handles of:
Freedom of the press foundation
Signal
Wikileaks
Freedom house
DEFCON conferences
Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, Meredith Whittaker, Ross Ulbricht, Moxie Marlinspike, Matthew Green
There’s also publications on foreign affairs and health of democracy in various countries, from which you can extract the relevant articles.
Lastly hacker news is also worth following.