Behavioural analysis is not a problem

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"He admits that while the technology is capable of encroaching on civil liberties and tracking individuals on a mass level, it would never be allowed to happen as the powers that be are far too upstanding to exploit that." ..... Stewart Hefferman, the chief technology officer of UK biometrics company OmniPerception.

And with that statement does Stewart Hefferman extraordinarily render himself the naive useful idiot. The powers that be will do anything to hold on to their corrupt systems for the perverted powers which they conceal and which are now destroying them as they unravel and are unveiled in SMARTer Intelligence Circles and Virtual AIMachinery's Cloud Base Networks InterNetworking Spun Information to Phormed and Pwnd Intelligence Services and WebWise CyberSpace Colonists aka CyberSpace Controllers with AIMaster Piloted Fleets of Enigmatic Power in Purple Prose.

Power corrupts Weak Man Absolutely with the Fools' Gold Promise of Impunity of Action and Immunity from Reaction, which of course, is totally at Odds with the the Natural Course of Things as is known to SMARTer Beings, and thus is Collapse Inevitable and Retribution Unavoidable under such Systems of Abuse and Misuse.

Changing the System would seem to be a Really Good Beta Idea in such cases. It is not difficult to do from the Top Down with IT in Control and MicroManaging the MacroKernel.

And the very ordinary powers that be, and/or would be, do not ask permission to be allowed to do anything, they just do it and apologise maybe afterwards or change dumb laws to suit the new crash test dummies agendas, which all renders them so very ordinary and vulnerable to much more Advanced Intelligently Designed Systems.

"One area where I do agree is, linking the behavioural patterns with my actual data should not take place without my explicit agreement - and this can certainly be done via some legal framework."

No, the data should not be collected AT ALL without my explicit approval. This is where the marketeers and the rest of us disagree. Behavioral analysis IS a problem. It's just not the problem you're trying to address.

I can see where it won't be a problem for Mt Heffalump. But I don't look forward to being arrested and banged up, or - apparently almost as likely these days - shot out of hand, just because some of his dodgy software thinks my behaviour is suspicious.

It used to be that an Englishman's home was his castle. Now the busies and their industriously self-enriching little technical friends presume to make free with the insides of our heads.

Of course the best way to outsmart these behavioral analysis systems is to be unpredictable(but not in a predictable way).

How I long for the day when I can walk down the street and see my fellow "Tin Foil Hatters" shaking hands with trees, talking to lamp posts and being walked by their dogs.

And that is specifically the issue, my dear Mr. Hefferman - why is it that YOUR agreement is required and not MINE ?

After all, what will it take to get your agreement, hmm ? A new car ? A swimming pool ? A lifetime airline ticket to anywhere on Earth with whoever you want to accompany you ? More ?

Whatever the price is, someone is liable to pay it. Not to mention that some people are liable to forget asking and just take the damn data. Where does that leave MY rights ?

Standing hip-deep in cow droppings, that's where.

No, Mr Hefferman, the essence of privacy is that it is MY right to divulge information about me, not yours. I did not sign any waiver to you in any way, shape or form, that would allow you to decide what you can do about data concerning me.

That is the crux of the argument, and morally I'm in the right. Of course, I realize that money is on the other side, and that is what makes this issue a dead end.

'Cause I'm not the one with the money, so I won't be the one lobbying to get a law in my favor.

But still, I'm the one who is right.

he would say that because he is paid to do so

the tracking system should be "OPT IN" with the default setting being "OPTED OUT"

do you trust your government to handle this information responsibly?

Crime will make tracking surveillance politically acceptable.

Adverts will get more intrusive and misleading until they drive us all mad or are regulated more strictly by law.

The fantasy world they create poisons the mind of humanity and is wrecking our society and culture by distorting the cognitive environment in which individuals grow. Can you imagine how destructive it would be to be bagged and tagged by advertising AI and pelted with delusions advertising irrelevancies attempting to hook with robotic precision into our egotic development?

Its a nightmare which is coming true already and making anorexic misfits out of vulnerable teenagers who do nto understand that advertising is lies and the machine that creates them is chaos incarnate.

IMHO adverts should stick to the point and not make false promises by association. Better still if they are presented on request as a form of relevant information about opportunities that match our requirements.

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"He admits that while the technology is capable of encroaching on civil liberties and tracking individuals on a mass level, it would never be allowed to happen as the powers that be are far too upstanding to exploit that."

Upstanding? OMFG look at the history of power hungry people in power. They go into politics because they want power over others, so they can dictate their will to others, so ultimately they can personally gain from having that power over others. Yet this two faced CTO of OmniPerception is trying to make us believe they wouldn't want to gain ever more power through tracking people ever more closely. They bloody well spy on just about anyone they can, in their own country as well as others and the more spying the better for them. For example, Thatcher used spies against the miners to allow her to fight and break them. Politicians of all parties have used spying for political gain at home.

As for this, "government agencies would never hijack these systems as a means of added surveillance or to start profiling potential troublemakers."
This guy is so two faced, it sounds very much like he is saying this as a sales pitch to the government agencies so they can use it to spy on political opponents. I bet he can't wait to get a huge government contract worth millions.

This guy sounds like an utter scum bag. He sounds exactly like yet another Narcissistic Personality Disorder in business. Their total two faced, self interested, lying, greedy manipulation and contempt for others is without limit, but unfortunately so many believe and fall for their lies and manipulation. This guy wants the government to back his business.