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Comment by jchw | Hacker News Reader

There's a scary, completely secret communication method that bypasses almost all law enforcement surveillance technology we have, and worse, it's existed for a long time and is already in common use with pedophiles and terrorists alike.

It's called "talking to somebody behind closed doors."

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Luckily, we have Internet of Things to remedy that unacceptable situation. With the advances of machine learning, we won't even need that. We will be able to tell if you are a criminal from the way you walk on the street which are full of surveillance cameras.

Alexa is a stool pigeon.

Not to mention cool new phones from Google with always-on microphones!

Every phone (even dumbphones!) is a phone with an always-on microphone.

The "Information Awareness Office" already has a program "Human Identification at a Distance (HumanID)" with this capability

I wonder when some country will try to implement the idea from Jacek Dukaj's "Black Oceans" - a society in which you can have private space, but if you've disabled cameras and/or are out of their view and anything happens you you, you don't get insurance.

It doesn't scale very well though when you're trying to run a large criminal organisation

They along with the tech industry are quickly ending that option, too, to the point where as soon as it happens, they'll act as if it's criminal to try to hide what you're talking behind closed doors.

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