Drones operationalize actuarial risk-based surveillance
Evidence
As Wall and Monahan point out, “drones are both predicated upon and productive of an actuarial form of surveillance. They are employed to amass data about risk probabilities and then manage populations or eliminate network nodes considered to exceed acceptable risk thresholds. In part, drones are forms of surveillance in keeping with the precepts of categorical suspicion and social sorting that define other contemporary surveillance systems.” — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 798
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to surveillance-studies work on categorical suspicion and social sorting (cf. David Lyon’s dataveillance literature). — connects to: Activity-based intelligence replaces identity and files of data become death warrants; Drone targeting decisions rest on probabilistic inference from behavior rather than observed facts. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 482; Preemptive drone targeting rests on epistemologically fragile predictions
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 798
Related
- Drone targeting decisions rest on probabilistic inference from behavior rather than observed facts. (similarity 0.85)
- Drones generate more surveillance data than national security systems can process (similarity 0.82)
- Drones transformed from surveillance eyes into weapons almost by chance. (similarity 0.80)
- Preemptive drone targeting rests on epistemologically fragile predictions (similarity 0.79)
- Drone technology severs visual discrimination from physical proximity to targets. (similarity 0.79)
- Surveillance can predict civilian behavior from recurring spatial and social patterns (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Preemptive drone targeting rests on epistemologically fragile predictions
#expands(0.75) - Drone targeting decisions rest on probabilistic inference from behavior rather than observed facts.
#expands(0.70) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 482