Surveillance
Surveillance has not been confined to battlefields for quite some time. Spying on average citizens really took off in the Western world in general with the false flag events of 9/11/2001. In the United States the Patriot Act was passed which dissolved almost all of the protections of the 4th Amendment. Massive government databanks store metadata (communication elements such as location of caller/sender/poster, location of recipient/receiver/viewer, date, time, length) while AI scans communications in real time for keywords, which if detected, the communication’s contents are recorded. This allows the creation of profiles for each and every human in America. Foreign governments have similar systems.
There are backdoors built into computer chips which log all kinds of data. Anywhere we go, something, a camera on a street light, the corner of the store, a satellite, a cellphone camera, a computer camera, and even the television set is watching us. We are constantly tracked, our activities and interactions documented. In the past this was the fiction of Orwell’s 1984. Orwell’s vision has been far surpassed.
The reason this surveillance is so prevalent is two fold. The first is the need AI has for data to make predictions. If an AI lacks data on a human individual’s likely reaction to certain stimuli then when confronted with making a real time decision to inform authorities of likely problem people, it will be inaccurate at best. Data collection used for these purposes is a necessary precursor for a non-fiction version of pre-crime as explored in the movie Minority Report.
The other need for such surveillance is to allocate resources under a technocratic government. Without being able to track the use of resources technocracy cannot operate. Under technocratic schemes, for example, the total availability of electricity over the course of a day would need to be known. The total number of users of the electricity needs to be known. A distinction between a residential, commercial, and industrial facility would need to be known. Residences would be allocated, say, 7 kWh a day per unit, commercial businesses 0.1 kWh per square foot of floor space, and industry 500 kWh at most per day. If the maximum limit is reached then the smart meter will relay the information to the main server and the power will be off for the rest of the day. The same technique would be used for allocating water, food, educational hours and every other conceivable good or service a human being could need. If you have never watched the movie Total Recall, it would be highly educational as to how this works.
One special area that would absolutely enslave all of humanity enabled by the rise of the surveillance state is transportation and, more precisely, travel at all. A digital grid, not unlike an invisible fence used to keep dogs in a specific area, can be, and have been, set up to deny further movement outside of the approved zone for any individual who strays. Instead of getting shocked, there would be a high likelihood of being detained by ‘police’ and returned to the approved zone. The technical term for this is geofencing and it seems to have been fully implemented in several nations as those nation’s governments attempt to impose their will as justified by COVID-19 mitigation efforts.
The Center for the Preservation of Humanity seeks to legally and legislatively eliminate governmental surveillance efforts to track people in real time, all the time. We will also educate the public about the potential uses of already collected data and the consequences of the continued collection of data by government, business, and private citizens. Geofencing operations (the creation of or maintaining of open-air prisons) will be directly and vociferously opposed by the Center for the Preservation of Humanity.