Bart Butler: AI surveillance is dangerous because it greatly increases the capacity and efficiency of data collection. However, this data is primarily collected online. If people do not want to be profiled by artificial intelligence, they must first reduce the amount of data they make available to the digital world and reduce their digital footprint. However, there are ways to mitigate these risks.
People can hide their IP address by using virtual private network. Because the IP address is a crucial element in identifying users online, changing it makes it difficult to attribute specific information to a given person.
However, this only masks your IP address and does not prevent data providers from continuing to identify you in other ways. In particular, through your email address, which is generally required to create an online account. This is where a password manager comes in. Proton Pass allows users to create aliases “hide-my-email”randomly generated email addresses that users may use when creating online accounts so that they cannot be identified by their actual email address.
Instead of using Google Drive, which Google can use to train its AI systems, users can turn to encrypted cloud storage to share sensitive information, family photos, etc. Proton Drive automatically secures users’ files with end-to-end encryption, meaning no one can access them, not even Proton. And instead of Google Docs, users can use Proton Docs, an open source and end-to-end encrypted document editor.