Only Civil Servants May Watch Everyone, Ministers Confirm
Westminster ministers confirm only civil servants may watch everyone, as the Commons debates smart glasses and surveillance stays.
Tag: Surveillance
London Neighbours: Civility With Surveillance-Level Awareness
London Neighbours: Civility With Surveillance-Level Awareness | London Neighbours and the Art of Polite Observation
Meta Tracks Workers’ Clicks to Build AI
Meta Tracks Workers’ Clicks to Build AI That Can Also Ignore Human Feelings on a Schedule Five Mildly Catastrophic Observations At long last, a machine that understands middle management perfectly, right down to the dead-eyed nod over a lukewarm tea. The AI can process emotion by skipping it instantly, a skill previously held only by HR and certain headmasters. Workers said morale was low. The algorithm marked that as background…
Meta Was AI Trained by Nigel
Meta Reveals New AI Trained Entirely by Watching Nigel from Accounts Have a Nervous Breakdown in Excel Five Mildly Catastrophic Observations Nigel has not opened a spreadsheet without sighing since the Blair government, and the sighing has only deepened. Meta has officially classified panic-clicking as the most authentically British contribution to artificial intelligence since the queue. Every time Nigel mutters “where have the bloody numbers gone,” the AI gains sentience…
Zuckerberg Declares Privacy Is Back
Zuckerberg Declares Privacy Is Back at Meta, Then Promptly Counts Your Every Keystroke Five Mildly Catastrophic Observations Nothing announces a privacy revival quite like a billionaire counting your every keypress in real time and graphing the results before pudding. The announcement was made behind a curtain of dashboards, which is how you know it was about transparency. Staff applauded, then asked whether applause speed was being logged. It was. Sustained…
The British Civil Liberties Tradition: Rights, Freedoms, and the Persistent Tendency to Remove Them When Inconvenient
The British Civil Liberties Tradition: Rights, Freedoms, and the Persistent Tendency to Remove Them When Inconvenient | Habeas Corpus, the Bill of Rights, the Human Rights Act, the Snoopers Charter, Protest Restrictions, and the Gap Between Britain’s Self-Image and Its Surveillance Legislation
Mouse Twitch Now Innovation Data
Staff Stunned to Discover Every Mouse Twitch Now Counts as Innovation Data at Meta Five Mildly Catastrophic Observations Workers thought fidgeting was stress. It was, in fact, unpaid R&D with a quarterly earnings call attached. Every accidental cursor circle is now worth millions in venture capital theory and tuppence in actual wages. The “wiggle the mouse so Teams stays green” manoeuvre is now patented behaviour and a leading indicator of…