I went to the International Security Conference (ISC West) in Vegas this year to walk the floor (I’m in the comms business). Unfortunately I found very little to do with communication, as almost everything was about next-gen physical and digital surveillance tech incorporating AI… New and devious ways of tying a physical human to their digital identity…

It was a bitter black pill to swallow to see the level of sophistication in these systems… All the tricks they have for bypassing any reasonable form of privacy we could hope to have…

Government surveillance tech was already terrifyingly dystopian, but now *enterprise* grade surveillance tech is almost just as good, and getting better faster than ever…

I share this not to say that all hope is lost or that having a reasonable degree of privacy is impossible, but as a reminder to remain vigilant. Privacy is the ability to selectively reveal oneself to the world, but retaining that ability is becoming ever more difficult in the face of bad state and corporate actors, working hand in hand… nostr:note1smf40m7pjqv9ycv5lq8hsxk5ewjtvzndgfq5r3lncgctxrylp7ksv267cd