Privacy Groups: Surveillance Is Threatening Democracy

Technocracy run by engineers and scientists threatens all types of governmental structures, not just ‘democracy’.  It seeks a scientific dictatorship where society is run and people are controlled by algorithm, as in China. ⁃ TN EditorOn Monday, forty organizations signed a letter calling on an independent government watchdog to recommend a ban on U.S. government use of facial recognition technology.
The letter was drafted by the digital privacy advocacy group El