https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/k7exem/banjo-ai-company-utah-surveillance... https://utah-das-contract-searchsp.s3.amazonaws.com/full_contract_AR3205_AR3... https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/5dmkyq/heres-the-file-clearview-ai-has-be... https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/clearview-ai-fbi-ice-global-law... https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/google-geofence-location-data-avondale-... https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/google-tracked-his-bike-ride-past-burgl... The state of Utah has given an artificial intelligence company real-time access to state traffic cameras, CCTV and "public safety" cameras, 911 emergency systems, location data for state-owned vehicles, and other sensitive data. The company, called Banjo, says that it's combining this data with information collected from social media, satellites, and other apps. In its pitches to prospective clients, Banjo promises its technology, called "Live Time Intelligence," can identify, and potentially help police solve, an incredible variety of crimes in real-time. "include but may not be limited to speech recognition and natural language processing" as well as automatic scene detection, object recognition, and vehicle detection on real-time video footage pulled in. Banjo's pitch to state and local agencies is that the more data that's fed into it, the better its product will work... Privacy experts are unsure how Banjo can be doing anything other than applying machine learning to a terrifying amount of data to create a persistent panopticon pointed at everyone who lives in Utah.