Watched. The AI, Privacy, and Security Weekly Update. EP 309
In This week's update: The Department of Homeland Security has a secretive unit that analyzes your financial habits, cross-references them with license plate data, and passes the results to local police - all without a warrant, all without probable cause, and all without you knowing it happened. They stop you for an obstructed license plate. You don't realize you were actually targeted because an algorithm decided your spending pattern looked suspicious. Flock cameras are now recording 120,000 surveillance feeds across 49 states, and police are using them to track people who haven't committed any crime, just to see where they go and how often they show up in certain places. Your smart TV is collecting data about what you're watching, scanning your home network to identify your other devices, and storing audio even when it's in standby. LG is saying their TVs aren't spying, but that's doing heavy lifting because researchers found audio logs stored on devic...
