I get it. Nobody likes somebody peeking in their window. But, at my age and lifestyle, anybody spying on me is going to be one bored SOB! As a former LEO, I sure wouldn’t want to have been assigned that duty. There he goes... he’s feeding the cats... there he goes he’s taking a pee... There he goes... he’s mowing the yard... I sure feel sorry for the poor dumb SOB that’s gonna spy on me! He’s gonna need more than just covfeefe to stay awake. Having been a LEO... I realize the poor dumb SOB then has to write reports. Talk about “suck duty”!
No need for a person to do the "surveillance".
It is all automated, and much closer to a "social score" than criminal surveillance.
Example:
There he is! on freerepublic again! How many hours this month!!
There, he looked at a gun article four times this month! Very unsocial activity.
Link to his phone location data.
He visited a Christian church (not an "acceptable" one either) three times this month.
How much money is he taking from the state with his pension?
Look! he disparaged the LBGQT agenda, again.
The score is reaching a point, a human may want to look.
Perhaps his online services need an "adjustment".
It's not likely to be a human.
AIs never get bored, never sleep, and never forget or forgive.
Same with me. My lifestyle would put the average Block Captain to sleep.
It is not humans that spy on you it is AI because humans could never keep up.
Point taken and I get it.
But - and big but it is - the mere fact that you read and post to FR - is undoubtedly something that our Stasi would want to kniw and track.
Everyone on this site is a subversive.