r/Reno • u/RandSumWhere • 2h ago
Please, for the love of GOD, tell city council not to adopt Fusus AI mass surveillance tomorrow
If you live in Reno and you are reading this, I am begging you (yes, YOU personally) to please show up to tomorrow’s city council meeting at 10 am, and demand that they do not sign this absolute dystopian nightmare of a contract.
Inform your family and your friends, and urge them to come with you. We need to flood the chambers and let them know that we are absolutely not going to let them do this to us.
If you cannot attend, here is the link to leave a public comment or register to attend via zoom:
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_wX5rlshYQRStZLzA7bx5cQ#/registration
Haven’t heard of FUSUS? It makes Flock look like a complete joke. Here’s a quick explanation.
Have you ever given much thought to how many cameras catch you in their field of vision on a day to day basis?
Every ring doorbell in your neighborhood, every intersection, every storefront, every worksite, every school, every parking lot, every sporting event, every medical office, every police drone, dash cam, body cam - even churches.
On a normal day for me, my estimate is about 130. If you actually count them up, I’m guessing that’s actually on the lower end for a lot of you.
Now imagine every single one of those cameras plugged into a system that has the following capabilities:
- Facial recognition scanning
- Gait analysis
- License plate scanning
- Emotional analysis based on facial expressions
- Personal associations mapping (friends and family)
- Predictive analysis using a constructed pattern of life baseline
- Access control
- Carried object recognition (drugs, outline of a concealed weapon in clothing, stolen property, etc)
Imagine all of these camera feeds are accessible at anytime by the Reno police, and shared to every other department or “federal partner” that requests it. They are monitored 24/7 by an AI system that logs and reports any flagged behavior. The behavior does not even have to be criminal behavior.
The scariest part? Unlike flock, There is no way to identify which cameras are plugged into this network. Any business or individual can register their EXISTING cameras to feed into Fusus. The end goal is, from the moment you exit your front door, to have an AI watching your every move, learning everything about you, cataloguing every petty crime, and deciding whether you could eventually pose a threat to those who rule over you.
This is the system that ends any possible resistance or insubordination before it even happens. It’s a system that collects and stores catalogues of blackmail to use against anyone at the right time.
It’s the palantir from lord of the rings.
I know it is easy to feel apathetic and hopeless about these things, but it is absolutely crucial that we use every ounce of power we have to prevent this from passing tomorrow. Once this system is in place, they will only ever build and expand it until it swallows us whole.