In Data-Driven South Korea, AI is Monitoring 3,200 Senior Citizens (apnews.com) 45
The search habits of thousands of South Korean senior citizens "are being monitored through virtual-assistant smart speaker technology," writes Slashdot reader shirappu. The AP reports that around 3,200 people across the country, "mostly older than 70 and living alone, have so far allowed the SK Telecom speakers to listen to them 24 hours a day since the service launched in April 2019."
It's part of a larger look at whether technology has become too invasive, in a country where health authorities have also "aggressively used credit-card records, surveillance videos and cellphone data to find and isolate potential virus carriers." Locations where patients went before they were diagnosed are published on websites and released through cellphone alerts. Smartphone tracking apps are used to monitor around 30,000 individuals quarantined at home... [E]ntertainment venues in Seoul, Incheon and Daejeon will be required to register customers with smartphone QR codes so they can be easily located if needed. The requirement expands nationwide on June 10. But there's a dark side. People here have often managed to trace back the online information to the unnamed virus carriers, exposing embarrassing personal details and making them targets of public contempt...
President Moon Jae-in's administration has said data-driven industries will be critical in boosting a pandemic-hit economy. Officials are preparing regulations for revised data laws that lawmakers passed in January after months of wrangling. They aim to allow businesses greater freedom in collecting and analyzing anonymous personal data without seeking individual consent. If they work as intended, optimists say the laws would allow artificial intelligence to truly take off and pave the way for highly customized financial and health care services after they start in August.
But activist Oh Byoung-il said the changes could bring excessive privacy infringements unless robust safeguards are installed. "Companies will always have an endless thirst for data, but you can't give it to them all," he said.
It's part of a larger look at whether technology has become too invasive, in a country where health authorities have also "aggressively used credit-card records, surveillance videos and cellphone data to find and isolate potential virus carriers." Locations where patients went before they were diagnosed are published on websites and released through cellphone alerts. Smartphone tracking apps are used to monitor around 30,000 individuals quarantined at home... [E]ntertainment venues in Seoul, Incheon and Daejeon will be required to register customers with smartphone QR codes so they can be easily located if needed. The requirement expands nationwide on June 10. But there's a dark side. People here have often managed to trace back the online information to the unnamed virus carriers, exposing embarrassing personal details and making them targets of public contempt...
President Moon Jae-in's administration has said data-driven industries will be critical in boosting a pandemic-hit economy. Officials are preparing regulations for revised data laws that lawmakers passed in January after months of wrangling. They aim to allow businesses greater freedom in collecting and analyzing anonymous personal data without seeking individual consent. If they work as intended, optimists say the laws would allow artificial intelligence to truly take off and pave the way for highly customized financial and health care services after they start in August.
But activist Oh Byoung-il said the changes could bring excessive privacy infringements unless robust safeguards are installed. "Companies will always have an endless thirst for data, but you can't give it to them all," he said.
How does it work? (Score:2, Insightful)
TFA is light on details, presumably it does processing in the cloud. If they could do the processing locally and just send alerts, similar to the Apple Watch fall detection, it would be fine.
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I guess you never met a SJW before?
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Here is a hint: MLK wasn't a SJW. Just because someone tries to push societal change doesn't make them a SJW. Do you think the black people protesting are SJWs? You obviously have never even spoken to one.
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Ah, right. I am "racist". There ya go. End of discussion. You and AmiMojo should hang out together. You can share a brain cell.
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Happy to help anytime, friend. Anytime at all.
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Here is a hint: MLK wasn't a SJW.
Rather straying from the topic, I think, but I'll bite.
Yes, of course Martin Luther King was a social justice warrior. Social justice was his passion and his obsession, and he was a warrior for it.
However, there have been many changes in the social justice movement in the 50 years since then.
Just because someone tries to push societal change doesn't make them a SJW.
Obviously. You have not merely push for societal change, you have to specifically push for that change to be social justice. Which Martin Luther King did. Vigorously and explicitly.
Do you think the black people protesting are SJWs?
Some are, some aren't.
You obviously have never even spoken to one.
Not sure if
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No, MLK was not a SJW. That is ridiculous. He was a great man who effected positive changes to American society and fought for justice and equality where there was none. Shame on you.
Martin Luther King fought for social justice (Score:2)
I'm not sure what alternate universe you come from where he is not.
If your point is that the social justice movement has evolved since him, though, well: sure, I'd agree with that.
No, MLK was not a SJW. That is ridiculous. He was a great man who effected positive changes to American society and fought for justice
Yes. Specifically, he fought for social justice. "Fought for social justice" is a rewording of the phrase "social justice warrior".
and equality where there was none.
I don't disagree with that.
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Are you asking if people want more privacy for the same level of service?
I mean... I guess there might be some 70+ exhibitionists out there.
But what about all the people who don't use this system because of the privacy problems? Seems like it could be a benefit to them if someone came up with a better product that they found acceptable to have in their homes.
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AmiMoJo is a SJW. He thinks he is a arbiter of every human behavior.
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Only some of those people are SJW. Those are two other types of people on the protests: people who believe that police brutality is an issue and are legitimately trying to create change, and Antifa/Anarchists who want to cause mayhem. AmiMojo is the worst kind of SJW: he thinks he should be the judge and executioner on every bit of human behavior.
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Ah I see. You are ANTIFA. I get it now. Please, continue.
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Many factions [Re:How does it work?] (Score:2)
Only some of those people are SJW. Those are two other types of people on the protests:
Oh, way more than two types. There are people who have been protesting for years, and there are people who just saw the recent news and have never protested anything before. There are angry young men who are mad about the system and mad about the fact that they are powerless to change anything about it; the rebels without a cause will attach to almost any cause. And, for that matter, some people who just want to burn stuff. There are white supremacists and hard-right radicals who want to smash and burn t
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100% correct and very accurate. In addition, the people who are currently protesting are actual protestors. The Antifa and professional looters are gone. They already accomplished their mission. The Antifa got the shit kicked out of them once the protestors actually figured it out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
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And you, sir, are a fuckwit.
Everything you accuse SJWs of - not listening, labelling people unfairly and treating them as part of a group instead of individually, arguing in bad faith, thinking they both know it all and should get to decide everything - is exactly what you do.
You justify it by saying SJWs are bad, without realizing you have become what you hate.
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That is because you SJWs are literally ALL ALIKE. You think you are independent thinkers, but you are not. People like you don't think at all. Just another club who wants to push "your" beliefs on the rest of us. I put "your" in quotes because it really isn't even your ideas.
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So you decided to label me, you decided that all members of this group as alike, unthinking and authoritarian... And you accuse me of being the bad guy here.
Tell us, whose mind is closed and full of hate? And which of use merely suggested that privacy is a good thing?
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Facebook Version 2.0 (Score:5, Interesting)
The STASI and NKVD never dreamed that people would voluntarily give up all the intimate personal details of their lives the way that they do to Farcebook/Twitter/etc., and now this is so far beyond their wildest fantasies they must be just be spinning in their graves. Someone should dig the bastards up and hook a generator to them, free electricity for life!
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They are "mostly people living alone".
Why do you have to make shit up to make a point? It's one of the first few lines of the summary. Jfc.
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The STASI and NKVD never dreamed that people would voluntarily give up all the intimate personal details of their lives the way that they do to Farcebook/Twitter/etc., and now this is so far beyond their wildest fantasies they must be just be spinning in their graves. Someone should dig the bastards up and hook a generator to them, free electricity for life!
Those charged with maintaining discipline and control of the general population have always had access to the latest and best information technology. You could make a case for the unbelievable technological improvements being a surprise, but, there would be no surprise at how most people cheaply and easily give up the intimate details of their lives. While the collection methods are more efficient than those used in the past, the general population's willingness to give up personal freedom/information/ch
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Always starts like this (Score:1)
When they start these projects, they always use the same groups: elderly, little kids, prisoners, and the military. The first two have reduced rights due to age, the next had their rights taken away for evil acts, and the last voluntarily gives up their rights to serve the rest of us. That's who these pilot projects always target. And when the inevitable objections arise, we are told to take a fucking chill pill, fucking relax, these people need help, it's not like we're going to force the rest of societ
and then they make you pay (Score:2)
Fees range from $5 to $25 a day for inmates. elderly just bill medicare $100 a day
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Yeah those Koreans are defrauding Medicare! Derp derp derp
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So many objections have been made in recent years against the "slippery slope" argument. However, those objections rarely can provide definitive proof that such an argument can't be valid. To deny that such a thing as you illustrate in your post isn't possible isn't logical.
Human nature is such that any plan, implemented in stages over the course of generations is likely to succeed. It doesn't matter if that plan is for the good of society as a whole or good for the masters of a society. If that plan is con
There is this old parable (Score:3)
I'm paraphrasing here but it goes something like this...
If you want to domesticate a herd of wild hogs, you begin by scattering corn on the ground. After a few weeks of this, you come in and put up one side of a square pen. Again, you let the hogs get used to the fence. It can't harm them, it's just one side. Then, a few weeks later, you put up another section. This continues until you have the entire fence created. The last step is to rush in and close the gate before the panic sets in.