Australian Senator Alex Antic recently warned in parliament about the rise of the digital surveillance state. He questions what is happening to all the data being collected and advises people on how it might be used against them.
The Senator explains that Australians are sleepwalking into a technocratic future as so-called “smart city” technology rolls out across the country. Invasive technology such as facial recognition cameras are now commonplace in Australian cities, along with digital ID and central bank digital currencies. Australians are staring at a CCP-style social credit future, he warned.
We have already lived through the early stages, explained Antic. Watch as he speaks in the Senate about our digital future:
Senator Antic filmed himself at the park and showed one of the many computer terminals where you can request all kinds of information about Haywood Park via a touch screen under the heading ‘Smart City’. For example, you can request information about barbecue usage in the area. Imagine a world not far from now, says the Senator, that your government has declared a climate emergency and no one is allowed to put meat on the barbecue to ‘save the planet’. Then the police will come to find you and turn off your barbecue, warns Antic.
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