The Global Expansion of AI Surveillance

A growing number of states are deploying advanced AI surveillance tools to monitor, track, and surveil citizens. Carnegie’s new index explores how different countries are going about this.

Executive Summary

Artificial intelligence (AI) technology is rapidly proliferating around the world. Startling developments keep emerging, from the onset of deepfake videos that blur the line between truth and falsehood, to advanced algorithms that can beat the best players in the world in multiplayer poker. Businesses harness AI capabilities to improve analytic processing; city officials tap AI to monitor traffic congestion and oversee smart energy metering. Yet a growing number of states are deploying advanced AI surveillance tools to monitor, track, and surveil citizens to accomplish a range of policy objectives—some lawful, others that violate human rights, and many of which fall into a murky middle ground.

In order to appropriately address the effects of this technology, it is important to first understand where these tools are being deployed and how they are being used. Unfortunately, such information is scarce. To provide greater clarity, this paper presents an AI Global Surveillance (AIGS) Index—representing one of the first research efforts of its kind. The index compiles empirical data on AI surveillance use for 176 countries around the world. It does not distinguish between legitimate and unlawful uses of AI surveillance. Rather, the purpose of the research is to show how new surveillance capabilities are transforming the ability of governments to monitor and track individuals or systems. It specifically asks:

💡 Which countries are adopting AI surveillance technology?
💡 What specific types of AI surveillance are governments deploying?
💡 Which countries and companies are supplying this technology?

👉🏼 Read the full report:
https://carnegieendowment.org/2019/09/17/global-expansion-of-ai-surveillance-pub-79847

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Trump's intelligence chief admits the obvious: Government can track your browser history

In a letter to Sen. Ron Wyden, DNI John Ratcliffe admits surveillance that "could be characterized" as browser info

The Trump administration recently used one of the most controversial surveillance provisions in U.S. history to record an unidentified person or group's visit to an unspecified website, the New York Times revealed Thursday.

The Times reports that President Trump's director of national intelligence, former Republican congressman John Ratcliffe, wrote to Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., on Nov. 6 to inform him that Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act had not been used to collect internet search terms, and that none of the 61 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court orders issued in 2019 involved "web browsing" records.

However, Ratcliffe was later forced to change his story.

Under pressure from the Times and following clarification from the Justice Department, Ratcliffe wrote to Wyden to admit that "one of those 61 orders resulted in the production of information that could be characterized as information regarding browsing," and that one order approved the collection of data regarding computers "in a specified foreign country" that were used to visit "a single, identified U.S. web page."

https://www.salon.com/2020/12/04/trumps-intelligence-chief-admits-the-obvious-government-can-track-your-browser-history_partner/

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