"There's a revolution occurring in how war and conflict are waged. New data-intensive systems are being developed; and commercial tech infrastructure is now supporting military operations. Data plays a key role in this revolution. Data is used to train and test systems, and the systems are fed data to target operations, communities, and individuals. While intelligence has long informed warfare, now we're seeing the very same dynamics that gave rise to surveillance capitalism feed a new era of innovation, feed a new era of innovation,"
"Surveillance capitalism devised expansive methods to target people based on data, using analytics and statistical methods. Many of the Big Tech firms that developed these techniques also developed cloud services. Governments are moving their health, welfare and even intelligence data into these cloud services rather than to run their own servers. Using Big Tech's cloud services, governments are now able to process this data at a previously unimaginable scale."
A revolution in warfare is driven by data-intensive systems and commercial tech infrastructure supporting military operations. Data trains and tests systems and is used to target operations, communities, and individuals. Techniques from surveillance capitalism, developed by Big Tech, are being repurposed for military use. Governments are migrating health, welfare, and intelligence data into Big Tech cloud services, enabling unprecedented data processing while creating dependencies on these firms. Big Tech firms are seeking to sell AI and cloud services to militaries to manage data. Militarisation of tech endangers privacy, autonomy, and dignity across everyday and high-stakes contexts.
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