Zak is a widely recognized expert on surveillance, cyber and the security and privacy risks with AI, big tech, social media and smartphones. He is regularly cited in the media, with appearances on BBC, Sky, NPR, NBC, Channel 4, TF1, ITV and Fox. Zak has 25-years real-world experience in AI, cyber and surveillance.
It was meant to be an exciting new reveal, but it has actually triggered a major backlash with warnings that it could be the start of a dangerous new threat to phone users in the wrong hands...a pre-release AI feature that will listen in on Android users’ calls, monitoring what is said to alert if it hears a potential fraud taking place. A keynoteGoogle has used Gemini Nano for this, with the processing taking place on-device.
Her point is that once such technology is introduced, it can be abused. If Google shows this can be done in the US with legal restrictions to prevent abuse, what’s to stop an autocratic government in Asia, Africa or the Middle East from mandating that such monitoring be used for terrorism, serious crimes, dissent, outlawed sexual behaviors, or any other activity.
Put more simply, once something is proven technically possible, the big tech defense that “it can’t be done” falls away, and suddenly we’re into the territory of “This is still pore-release, of course, and Google says it will share more details on this new feature later in the summer. But a quick skim of the“We're testing a new feature that uses Gemini Nano to provide real-time alerts during a call if it detects conversation patterns commonly associated with scams.
Let’s take China as an example. If Android provides the ability to monitor for scams, what would be the argument to the Chinese government that the same technology cannot be used to flag discussions around a localized terror attacks or dissenting behavior against government intents. If a national law was passed that such monitoring, where possible, was a legal requirement.
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