Trump's SURVEILLANCE State Creates NIGHTMARE Scenario...

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Flock cameras, data centers, and AI doomsaying is all the rage, appropriately, but there also another actor in the surveillance story: us. In this episode, Legal AF’s Ray Brescia interviews Andrew Guthrie Ferguson, a Professor of Law at George Washington University Law School, about his new book Your Data Will Be Used Against You: Policing in the Age of Self-Surveillance, published by NYU Press. Ferguson warns how sensor-driven technology, social media monitoring, and artificial intelligence, all a part of modern-day life, can be turned against personal dignity, democratic values, and personal freedoms. He deploys what he calls the “Tyrant Test” for us to assess our comfort level with what information is collected and by whom: if we would not be comfortable with a “Tyrant” having our most personal data, then we probably should not permit the form of surveillance. The conversation explores how law should evolve to protect our privacy and dignity and how individuals and communities can p