You thought I was making up Hyderabad being a Digital Dystopia. After Hyderabad Metro we have ads of Bigg Boss is watching us around the city under every surveillance camera 😭
@digitaldutta
Kind of reminds of San Francisco. I went on a day trip to there recently and the number of ads specifically targeting tech companies was bewildering. One giant billboard for Twilio literally just said, "Ask your developer"
Dutta is talking about something completely different.
Dutta is implying that traffic cams intended to fine motorists for not wearing helmets are actually for surveilance.
He is of the opinion that peolle who believe helmets are unfashionable shouldn’t be punished. That the no-helmet culture prevalent in India shouldn’t be corrected. That people should just die eve after minor motor cycle accidents.(head injuries)
Death by bikes is cool isn’t it - ? @design_RG
The reason they have the bill-board is to scare people of facing heavy traffic fines if caught by the camera.
Let’s not cross the fine line between caution and paranoia.
It is the youths who mostly die in these motorcycle accidents. Let’s do whatever we can to protect them.
@Full_marx @jump_spider @design_RG you have no idea what I am talking about. Have a good day.
@digitaldutta @Full_marx @jump_spider
Karl, indeed -- riding a motorcycle without a helmet is asking for trouble. Too easy to get a major injury, and maybe turn into a vegetable, to be supported by someone. Or dead.
We have a publicly funded health insurance system in Canada, like they do in UK and most other developed countries. To allow someone to carelessly risk head injuries that could cause big costs to the system is unacceptable to most people.
Surveillance is everywhere in the UK apparently (haven't visited), not even disguised but sold as public safety.
George Orwell was prescient.
China is EVEN worse, there AI is monitoring all the camera feeds.
In china the Facial Recognition can fine you for J-Walking and deliver the bill to your WeChat !!
I saw a video of a guy testing this out in shenzhen. and within minutes of his crime he was fined.
It's Insane!!
@Full_marx
It really is insane. WE don't need that.
In Hong Kong, the protesters seem to be using small laser pointers and zapping the cameras to disrupt them.
It's a nightmare if things keep going this way.
Even people who are digitally literate might see Luddite action as appropriate.
This apparatus has to be stopped.
@digitaldutta @jump_spider
For a country the size of India, manually solving problems is gonna slow things down.
We can use technology to assist us in bettering lives.
Maybe in the west it is excessive but we are running out of qualified manpower here.
BUT
We need to find a way to open up these sectors to monitoring by watchdogs.
(irrespective it is very easy to hack an IP cam network and make it do things like divert the feed or use it to execute a DDOS attack. --- that's another issue altogether)
@Full_marx
Familiar with sousveillance?
@design_RG @digitaldutta
@jump_spider
Of course I have.
Amazing concept.......for the west. Not for India though.
Not yet.
@design_RG @digitaldutta