The West, China, and AI surveillance GeoTech Cues by Kaan Sahin (Guest Author)
Risks and opportunities
It is the year 2027: China has been continually perfecting its full-fledged nationwide surveillance architecture in form of smart and secure cities as well as the social credit system. The results cannot be denied: thanks to artificial intelligence (AI), surveillance systems throughout the streets plaster the faces of jaywalkers on billboards and drivers of speeding cars are immediately informed that they are fined, leading to a new record low of traffic accidents.
At the same time, however, the government has employed AI surveillance systems as big-brother-type instruments of repression. For instance, AI tools have been honed to the degree that they can automatically grade be it online or offline the degree of comments critical of government and discipline their citizens according to
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Last month, the Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC) published a report from its Biometrics Subcommittee with recommendations that will affect how the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) deals with biometric privacy and security issues going forward.
In April of 2020, Acting Secretary Wolf asked the Biometrics Subcommittee to examine how the Department approaches biometric-driven identity management, and whether the Department would benefit from a more unified approach to this data. More specifically, the Acting Secretary requested recommendations from the Subcommittee in several areas, to include how DHS can establish a multi-year biometrics strategy and implementation plan with performance metrics and oversight; best practices in creating a biometrics enterprise and governance process; how DHS can better communicate with the public, Congress and stakeholders about how it manages biometric information, to inclu