[en] Is #AI "#supercharged #surveillance" #legal? (#USA)
"... answer is not straightforward."
"... huge amount of information that the #government can #collect on Americans that is not itself regulated ... by the #Constitution .. #Fourth #Amendment ..."
"... the government can purchase commercial data ... which can include #sensitive personal information like #mobile #location and web #browsing records."
"What AI can do is it can take a lot of information, none of which is by itself sensitive, and therefore none of which by itself is #regulated, and it can give the government a lot of powers ...".
"AI can aggregate ... information to spot patterns, draw inferences ... at massive scale ... law has not caught up with #technological reality".
technologyreview.com/2026/03/0…
Is the Pentagon allowed to surveil Americans with AI?
Artificial intelligence is supercharging surveillance, and the law has not caught up with it.Michelle Kim (MIT Technology Review)
