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What's Changing? - Privacy
Privacy
Halcyon Identifies 14 December 2023

 

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December 2023

  • AI has become a major tool for computer-generated non-consensual pornography - a problem that disproportionately affects women. In September 2023 alone, 24 million people visited websites that gave them the ability to “undress” - or “nudify” - people in photographs using machine-learning technology.

 

October 2023

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The technetronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values. Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities - Zbigniew Brzezinski, in Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era (1970).

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The technetronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values. Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities - Zbigniew Brzezinski, in Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era (1970).

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All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income - Samuel Butler