Reports that Madison Square Garden temporarily shut off its facial recognition system for Swift’s wedding expose a glaring problem with how the elite wield and control mass surveillance.
There’s no such thing as a good billionaire.
Venues should not be allowed to have this level of surveillance for public events. The way the owner of MSG has uesd it is proof enough, banning people for unrelated reasons because the owner is a massive piece of shit.
Great article. It touches on the primary concerns I have with modern surveillance tech, namely:
This “privacy for me, surveillance for thee” attitude feels like a perfect encapsulation of the future we’re already living in: one where wealthy elites can afford privacy, while the rest of us are forced to live in a corporate surveillance panopticon.
This concept has crossed my mind as well: privacy becoming a privilege reserved for the super-wealthy; it simply being added to luxuries the underclass should naively strive for, in exchange for their exhaustible time and energy.
AI surveillance in the hands of wealthy individuals could create opportunities for Epstein-like abusers to get away with their crimes, allowing monied interests to get dirt on politicians, law enforcement and even judges.
Wealthy individuals getting away with crimes is the most terrifying to me. Where either knowing mazes in surveillance infrastructure, or systems explicitly turning a blind eye, could create situations where: there’s no evidence placing the actual perpetrator at a crime-scene, while an innocent person, simply being in the wrong place at the wrong time, is framed with evidence to support it.
Not privacy related, but … another double standard is that she is against guns yet her security team was armed at her wedding.
Idk I think this is similar to being against exploitative capitalism but also shopping at Walmart because you need to be able to eat.
Sorry, I forgot that we all need a team of armed guards in order to exist.
We don’t because we aren’t millionaire musicians.
You ever seen the stalker that targeted Bjork or some of the unhinged superfan people in South Korea who stalk down KPOP members?
There’s some weird people out there man. I think if you are that famous then yes you kind of do need armed guards like that.
Especially with some of the frothing at the mouth MAGA folks out there who some of them think she’s like a plant or deep state propagandist or some other weird shit I only saw it in passing on some Facebook posts by those people.
What about non-millionaire/billionaire people with stalkers? People have violent Ex’s, violent coworkers - and rarely, but still happens - violent strangers.
Poor people have lives that are threatened. Domestic abuse/murder is all too common all across the world.
So why is she more valuable?
Life’s like a shit sandwich… the more bread you got, the less shit you’ll taste.
