It is not currently, but the point I am making is the tech is coming in leaps and bounds, and I expect the next 5-10 years we are going to see something we have

It is not currently, but the point I am making is the tech is coming in leaps and bounds, and I expect the next 5-10 years we are going to see something we haven't seen before; computers parsing semantic information from images, something that once was just an array of pixels to them. I point you to this TED talk where they can already describe scenes [1] (skip towards the end). > So are they not allowed to use the data? Being able to pull semantic knowledge from data changes the game. I expect in the next 5-10 years laws are going to have to come out to stop companies going too far with this. Sadly, laws are only really introduced after something goes horribly wrong, so we've got that to look forward to too. > If you're just stating that the possible surveillance capabilities are increasing then I think this is pretty well known...? Privacy advocates are a minority. My friends are almost all non technical and don't even think about it. That's because this is new ground, and there haven't been severe repercussions yet. But they are coming. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40riCqvRoMs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40riCqvRoMs