US government is using AI for unprecedented social media surveillance

US government is using AI for unprecedented social media surveillance

Data and AI tools enable broad surveillance of social media

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The US government is expanding its surveillance of social media to monitor millions of visitors and immigrants – and its embrace of more data analytics and artificial intelligence tools could increase scrutiny of US citizens as well.

“It is nearly – if not entirely – impossible for the government to focus only on non-citizens and not look at anyone else’s social media,”…

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https://www.newscientist.com/article/2479045-us-government-is-using-ai-for-unprecedented-social-media-surveillance/