Surveillance State Measure

A Surveillance State Measure is a national measure of the mass surveillance on a state population.

• Context:
  • It can be necessary during AGI Emergence (because any rogue organization can achieve great damage).
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• See: Surveillance, Intelligence Agency, Totalitarianism, Targeted Surveillance, Civil Disobedience, National Security, Privacy, Civil Rights, Political Rights, FBI COINTELPRO Program.

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References

2018

• (Wikipedia, 2018) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_surveillance#Surveillance_state Retrieved:2018-8-1.
  • A surveillance state is a country where the government engages in pervasive surveillance of large numbers of its citizens and visitors. Such widespread surveillance is usually justified as being necessary for national security, such as to prevent crime or acts of terrorism, but may also be used to stifle criticism of and opposition to the government.

    Examples of early surveillance states include the former Soviet Union and the former East Germany, which had a large network of informers and an advanced technology base in computing and spy-camera technology. But these states did not have today's technologies for mass surveillance, such as the use of databases and pattern recognition software to cross-correlate information obtained by wire tapping, including speech recognition and telecommunications traffic analysis, monitoring of financial transactions, automatic number plate recognition, the tracking of the position of mobile telephones, and facial recognition systems and the like which recognize people by their appearance, gait, DNA profiling, etc.

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