Thoughts on surveillance and computer vision's part in it

I'm not a fan of surveillance. I've written papers on doing surveillance. Hypocritical? Perhaps yes. Does it make me blind to now see its negative impacts? No. A longer philosophical argument about the pros/cons will perhaps come soon. But till then, here are some links you should check out if interested.

• https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/18/technology/clearview-privacy-facial-recognition.html
• https://www.aclu.org/issues/national-security/privacy-and-surveillance
• https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/research/2020/06/amnesty-international-calls-for-ban-on-the-use-of-facial-recognition-technology-for-mass-surveillance/
• https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/19/tech/twitter-image-cropping-algorithm-bias/index.html