How the insurance sector could become the Trojan Horse for a police state to surveillance you 24 hours per day with your consent
Are
we now close to the point to accept full surveillance of our private
lives?
Paul Jay
of the RealNews
spoke with Rana Foroohar on the basis of her book Makers and
Takers: The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business.
According
to Jay's description, “Rana is an associate editor and global
business columnist for The Financial Times. She’s also CNN’s
global economic analyst. Prior to her work at CNN and The Financial
Times, Rana spent six years as an assistant managing editor and
economic columnist for Time. And before that she spent 13 years at
Newsweek as an economic and foreign affairs editor and a foreign
correspondent covering Europe and the Middle East.”
So, it's
clear that Foroohar is an insider of the current dominant system.
During this interesting discussion with Paul Jay, Foroohar made a
remarkable firsthand revelation:
AI is
already being used in ways that we can’t even begin to imagine.
I’ll give you an example.
I was at
the World Economic Forum in Davos recently, and I spoke to an
insurance executive. And insurance seems like a boring old-line
business. He was out acquiring Hong Kong data firms, all kinds of AI
technology, in order to, eventually, put sensors in homes and in cars
to monitor, say, how you’re taking care of your pipes, or whether
or not your 16 year old is smoking weed in his bedroom, or how fast
you’re going in your car and how quickly you’re braking.
And the
sensors would be relaying all that information in real time, and then
they would write you, if you are deserving, a personalized insurance
policy.
Now,
think about what that does to the collective versus individual. The
entire insurance business model has been based on collective
aggregation of risk. Suddenly, AI and data and the digital economy
allows you to write individualized, personalized policies just for
you, just for me. Now, that’s great for some people, but it also
might have an entire class of people that would be uninsurable now.
Well, who’s going to insure them? Well, the state, probably.
First,
what is so "great" in being monitored, in any way, 24 hours
per day by a private company? But even if this is done with your
consent, this "model" may become the blueprint for a police
state to surveillance you full-time under the pretext of "insurance
for all".
It's not
that hard to imagine such a Dystopia in the close future, considering
that under current model, big private companies are actually a
significant element of the deep state. Private companies and
intelligence agencies are frequently partners in illegally violating
and collecting personal data of millions of citizens.
It has
been mentioned
that, as technology has made it possible to monitor millions of phone
calls, the acceptance that any phone can be monitored, comes
naturally. Despite the assurances of the head of the NSA, that
intercepts refer to governments and not citizens, most of us have
been "trained" to view as natural the fact that our
telephone conversations, e-mails or any other form of communication
with others, such as through social media, can be monitored.
Recall
that a mass surveillance operation — code-named KARMA
POLICE — was launched by British spies without
any public debate or scrutiny. It was just one part of a giant global
internet spying apparatus built by the United Kingdom’s electronic
eavesdropping agency, Government Communications Headquarters, or
GCHQ.
So, are
we now close to the point to accept full surveillance of our private
lives?
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