Early today I was scanning press releases, a habit I have, to stay ahead of breaking world news and twisted information made available in mainstream media.
This press release caught my attention: “Cobwebs’ Threat Intelligence Solutions”. At first blush the intent seems good, ‘The key to threat intelligence solutions is to combine real-time incident response along with proactively monitoring for malware and ransomware that are targeting key aspects of organizations and block those threats.”
This is the part which you must be aware of, because it affects freedom, privacy and access to information: “The solution streamlines operations, taking all data feeds into on single AI-powered engine, making it easy for users to visualize the raw indicators turned into actionable intelligence.”
How does it do this? By “instantly and automatically monitor, collect and analyze, and process the data from all layers of the internet as well as social networks, including on sites that users may not want to expose their identity.”
Facial recognition, deep image analysis, profiling. All the good options are available to customers, check it out cobwebs dot com.
This has been active technology for some time.
People must be aware, should be concerned and corporations should also think about the potential impact of AI having full access to proprietary information. AI is meant to learn and adapt from the information made available to it correct?
If you don’t happen to have a technical understanding of the specific terminology above, there are certain technical keywords that cause concern. ‘All layers’ of the internet means collecting data that includes end user applications being used, presentation of data (encrypted, decrypted), session (connections/hosts), transport protocol, network details (IP), data link (unique hardware identifier) and physical network details. Not to mention the fact they explicitly state “including on sites that users may not want to expose their identity.”
People are concerned with having chips implanted in their body by government. Its already done. You lined up and paid for it. That phone you paid big money for is chipped, the unique identifier in that device connects directly to you, a person, and main-stream technology doesn’t allow you to be anonymous. Same with your computer at home, your smart tv, that intelligent home device that isn’t listening unless you speak to it. Oh! I know, lets use smart thermostats too that can tell when I walk in my home and adjust the temperature for me in whatever room I happen to be in.
Freedom?
If we, globally, follow the lead of the communist countries you will soon have a social score that will dictate your freedom in life based on behavior gathered through technology and analyzed with AI.
When all data is routed through one service, it would be relatively simple to extract details on exactly what a target individual (threat) has been doing, who they are and where they were sitting. Depending on your fridge technology may also tell what snack you are having.
People have a right to privacy and a right to access information to seek truth without being under surveillance.
How Does Stakeholder Capitalism Fit In?
It seems world organizations have a fascination with control and have identified the unique ability of corporations to apply control within their organizations. I wrote about this here. A corporation can develop and apply policy to an individual which a government could not apply on that individual. This happens because people sign code of conduct and contracts that give away these rights in exchange for pay. People need a livelihood and money, and now there is more at stake in that business relationship than just your time.
What A World
These same organizations likely have wonderful employee perks such as “free wifi” and most people seek out free internet access whenever possible to reduce data costs. Once you connect to a wifi network offered by an organization who may be a customer of an intelligence solution all of your data is now being analyzed through a central source. Not to mention the company benefits providers’ health app that you can book and track appointments, prescriptions, seek automated support for mood disturbances.
Ever sign up for free wifi at the airport while you wait for your flight to depart? Did you know many of these airports in all countries are using facial recognition surveillance through their entire facility?
Everything is going out over the network; your data is stored on the “cloud” which is, actually, a physical data centre somewhere in the world. You have no control over it.
This all fits nicely into stakeholder capitalism and the great reset. Identifying threats to corporate reputation.
Someone Please Define Threat
Following 9/11 organizations’ internal threat assessments began stating that the ‘corporations’ biggest threat is within. Meaning corporations had to protect themselves from negative actions of bad employees. Along with this came increased security, id access cards, biometric scanners. You have already been identified as being a potential threat, and that identification allows for surveillance and monitoring.
On a side note, this is not breaking new technology, this is only a corporation who has been providing a service now opening that service up for more corporate customers. These systems and products were designed for government use years ago. To go deeper in access, bringing corporate customers on board pushes deeper penetration into access to data.
How do I know about this? Firsthand experience, and you will have to buy my book when it comes out to read about that.
Now, in my ideal world we prioritize God given rights to freedom, we support capitalism and all corporations are funded publicly through bonds and stock traded on open public markets where we share the wealth and have the ability as stakeholders to influence the direction of corporate strategy for the good of humankind. We don’t need surveillance, control or stakeholder capitalism for this. We need freedom and elimination of secret controlling organizations.
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