Governments worldwide have been adopting surveillance measures for decades. But with the development of new technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI), they can deploy surveillance at unprecedented scale and speed and gain easy access to new sources of information, such as vast amounts of data collected by online platforms and services. The increased ability of authorities to monitor people’s behavior, including in public spaces, online and offline, severely impacts the right to privacy and non-discrimination and can cause chilling effects on freedom of expression, assembly, and association. Read more here.
Source: ECNL