Insurance companies shouldn’t be allowed to use Google Earth or Google street view images or automated AI and LLM to make decisions on coverage or rates.
Tag: surveillance state
We already have secret unseen societal credit scores.
Surveillance pricing ought to be outlawed, and there should never be a time you are compelled to be surveilled just to buy something.
AI Toys. What circle of Hell is this?
I’m sure the toys will come with their own cell data connections to upload the data directly without needing wifi or permission, sort of like the livongo blood pressure devices.
Peter Thiel is the baddie and Palantir is a company named for an evil surveillance tool.
These tech tycoons seem to have some kind of religion where up is down and nothing makes sense.
Good guys could easily take advantage of the fact Peter Thiel named his company after the bad guy weapon.
The Letterhack provides Democrats with some needed remedial tips.
I don’t need an app for that – especially not one made by chatbot.
Be more fun at parties – put down your phone.
Alligators knock doors in Florida.
This is going to put a damper on getting better politicians elected in Florida. Too close for comfort: Gators seen scratching and knocking on front doors of 3 Florida homes WSVN-TV May 12, 2025 Maybe I’m cynical but I can’t help suspect this is a PR planted story as covert marketing for doorbell cameras because […]
AI therapy doesn’t exist because it misses the point of therapy, which is a relationship.
Chatbot therapy is a good way to make yourself a sitting duck for political abuse of psychiatry.
Online troll farm mercenaries to be hired by US government to police speech online.
There are operatives celebrating a boon in their job market.
The surveillance state already exists, including at healthcare appointments.
Members of law enforcement agencies may have the ability to track the medical appointments of any patient of Kaiser Permanente (which owns Geisinger in Pennsylvania), without a warrant and without any probable cause, for any reason that may interest them.