The AI Surveillance Arms Race: Can You Hide From Always-On Recorders?
Everything You Do Is Being Recorded
As AI-powered wearables that record everything become mainstream, a startup called Deveillance offers a countermeasure: Spectre I, a device that blocks nearby recording. The Atlantic explores the growing cat-and-mouse game between surveillance tech and privacy tools, noting that even mobsters used to strip-search for bugs—now ordinary people may need similar defenses.
Until recently, only spies and criminals had to worry this obsessively about their private statements being picked up by electronic equipment.