Doborzyński: American panopticon

Miguel G. Pascal writes in the latest article in "El Pais" about the United States as a state of mass surveillance. Recently, the planet has been informed of Trump's and Muska's breakups. "President Trump and his erstwhile star advisor, Elon Musk, accelerated the implementation of a immense technological infrastructure that monitors the lives of millions of people". For now, the full focus is on immigrants, but the author fears that it will naturally not end there. The pallet of specified surveillance is immense and involves various ways. The improvement of AI enables social media to be scanned, biometric, income, wellness and social safety data analysed. It captures telephone calls, geolocates with mobile devices, or tracks the journey by car utilizing licence plate readers.

Patriot Act on steroids

And as it all takes place without legal permission, it resembles the Patriot Act, which was passed in the United States after September 11, 2001. The main nonsubjective was "enhance national safety by extending the powers of law enforcement and intelligence services and facilitating cooperation between them". However, this is what Shoshan Zuboff wrote about in her book The Age of Capitalism of Surveillance. It assumes that ‘Supervisory capitalists do not disagree from another capitalists in their request for freedom from any restrictions. The emphasis is on freedom >>, freedom to introduce any fresh practice, while aggressively promoting the request for freedom from >>> rights and regulations". Pascual, however, claims that all technology has developed over the past decades. Large budgets are given to intelligence agencies but besides private suppliers. Companies specified as Palantir, Anduril and GEO Group are listed here.

Trump's fresh tools

The Trump administration besides has its fresh tools to aid track immigrants. And so the Department of Homeland safety uses Babel X, while Immigration and Customs Enforcement uses SocialNet. This allows you to aggregate data from 200 sources, including Facebook, Twitter/X, Instagram, LinkedIn or dating applications. And since the United States traditionally belongs to the Zionist acolytes camp, they besides follow the activity associated with “anti-Semitic activities”. Then, as at colleges, there is no mercy for those who request “freedom for Gaza” and who are denied asylum or citizenship. The same is actual of “anti-Christian prejudices”. Clearly, criticism can be limited. This clearly shows that specified practices are anti-democratic, although there is allegedly specified a strategy of government in this country.

Exchange trade

Thompson Reuters or Lexis Nexis who are data brokers “create comprehensive profiles of millions of people, utilizing up to 10,000 types of data about each individual based on its online footprint. This includes their name, address, income level or place of purchase, favourite types of recreational activities, the age at which their friends have married, their sexual past and emotional profile — all of this information is available.”. Full profiling, however, for the state panopticon may besides be useful for the outgoing White home Elon Musk. Especially since the profiling of hundreds of millions of citizens besides takes place in the national government, with the aid of the Trump and Muska project, which is called the Department of Government Efficiency. Data uses Palantir to build a deportation platform. This will let the analysis of the mark population to let an individual tracking system.

Extensive eyes and earssystem

Surveillance and tracking includes a wide spectrum of tools that can be utilized to know everything about everyone. ‘Face designation surveillance drones, biometric data collection, plate readers, reflection towers equipped with cameras and advanced resolution sensors, police predictive tool and location tracking“ they stimulate the imagination to specified an degree that it is possible to find the absence of only a periscope that can appear from the ground so that it can besides be observed without the consent of the court and of anyone curious who does not like the system. In Poland, during the “pandemic” this was practiced by observing on cameras the “illegal” clusters of people, to be the reason for the “carrying on” dangerous virus.

Acceleration of surveillance

According to the author of the article, Trump has accelerated the construction of the full surveillance system. It turns out that it is now "more proposals from government agencies seeking companies that can supply more invasive and advanced surveillance tools, so we can anticipate this trend to proceed to develop". They say "The Trump administration appreciates national safety more than, and even at the expense, human rights and privacy. Members of his administration not only oversee people, but even discussed the suspension of basic democratic principles specified as habeas corpus ”. This is even called "the evaporation of human rights". And the final conclusion of the author is that the pretext for tracking and supervising immigrants can be good to usage against everyone.

Bartłomiej Doborzyński (Polish Barometer)