Bangkok police to pilot AI surveillance system

[bluesofa]

23 minutes ago, Srikcir said:

Intersteps Company Ltd. does seem to have some Chinese connections through its technicians.

• Intersteps Company Limited is a business consulting company focusing on technology solutions established since 2009.  We’re serving many clients majoring in different markets such as retails, real estate, consumer products, telecom and government sectors. Together with our professional team and technology partners from China, Hong Kong, USA, and some other countries  https://th.jobsdb.com/th/jobs/companies/intersteps-co-ltd?JSSRC=SRLSC

I can find little else on the internet but this Intersteps Co.,Ltd. may also be related to the same aforementioned company:

• The Intersteps Company was established in 2005 to take advantage of the Newly emergent multimedia opportunities observed by the principals in The Asian marketplace.
• Currently the team has successfully applied their expertise to Strategic multimedia re-branding and overall marketing campaign for three Major Thailand conglomerates of mass retail outlets, government education Programs and a major convergence provider of satellite, cable, landline and cell phone services.
• The team draws on an extensive network of seasoned professionals within Thailand and the United States  https://www.gmdu.net/corp-129226.html

The company reads more like a Thailand-based communications-media body shop than a dedicated and experienced AI tech company. From that perspective the Bangkok Committee Overseeing Police Administration has potential for high risk of an expensive failure versus using foreign companies with proven AI surveillance experience.

I'd like to know how Intersteps was selected. BMA itself has had since 2014 a couple of lawsuits filed against it for contract collusion.

Thanks for the informative reply, and your youtube post on the WSJ video.

 

It does seem very concerning about who is doing what, regarding monitoring the public now AI is taking off more, and how - or if - they are responsible, and who they answer to.

[Darkside Gray]

So now, the AI is monitoring AI, just wondering?

[Krataiboy]

17 hours ago, timendres said:

I have always feared China exporting it's authoritarian tech:

 

 

By accident or design, China has become the global laboratory for the kind of Big Brother state surveillance systems chillingly envisioned by half a century ago by the likes of George Orwell and Aldous Huxley.

 

In the hi-tech teeming new cities of China, digital equipment is used to monitor and control entire city populations around the clock. With the global roll-out of 5G and the Internet of Things it facilitates, the same tools will be at the fingertips of governments of all political persuasions.

 

The UK is among 20 nations already to have chosen Chinese telecommunations giant Huawei to spearhead its nation-wide implementation of 5G, despite warnings from scientists and doctors that the resulting powerful radiation constitutes a threat to every living thing on the planet, human, animal and vegetable.

 

Their concerns are being drowned out by a chorus of approval from governments, the mass media and the telecoms industry - all of whichstand to benefit financially, as well as in other ways, from the adoption of the powerful new technology.

 

Within six years, according to the Chinese government, 40 percent of the world's people are expected to be covered by Huawei's digital umbrella. None of them, however, will be Americans. President Donald Trump has rejected any 5G deal with the Chinese tech giant on the grounds it would pose a threat to national security.

 

At least we can't say we weren't warned.

 

https://www.newsweek.com/chinese-military-power-us-might-643022

https://www.techgenyz.com/2018/12/11/huawei-signs-contract-to-use-5g-technology/

https://www.5gawareness.com/5g/prime-minister-of-poland-signs-global-appeal-to-stop-5g/

Edited July 26, 2019 by Krataiboy

[timendres]

On 7/25/2019 at 10:57 PM, onera1961 said:

Better than opening up brothels (aka bars) through out the country and pimps (bar managers) pimping young girls to creepy old sexpats for marriage. This model of economic development has not produced a better result in the last 50-year. It just perpetuates the system that benefits sexpats.

And, thus, the machine creeps forward with the acquiescence of a majority focused on minutia.

[RichardColeman]

Anyone explain to me in simple terms how it would work with a Burka ? 

[observer90210]

Will it be like the fingerprint scan system at Swampy Airport, that often is down and generates disgracefully long queues on Arrival.....