Surveillance can predict civilian behavior from recurring spatial and social patterns

Evidence

Zuboff’s magnum opus theorizes “surveillance capitalism” as a new accumulation regime that extracts behavioral surplus from users to predict and modify behavior. Her method is political-economic critique synthesizing Polanyi, Arendt, and STS. — , The Braided Reading EPUB, 73 (#expands, via linked claim)

Furthermore, in determining that status, one slips from an epistemology of manifest observation and statements of fact into an epistemology of suspicion in which a targeting decision is based on the identification of behavior or a pattern of life that suggests membership in a hostile organization. For example, your pattern of life might suggest a 70 percent chance that you are a militant, in other words a combatant, and we accordingly have the right to kill you. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 482 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Signature strikes kill based on behavior patterns, not confirmed identity; Predictive threat-detection rests on epistemologically fragile assumptions — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 198; Surveillance capitalism extracts behavioral surplus to predict and modify behavior. — , The Braided Reading EPUB: 5-Year…, 73 (+10 more)

Related

• Drone targeting decisions rest on probabilistic inference from behavior rather than observed facts. (similarity 0.84)
• Signature strikes kill based on behavior patterns, not confirmed identity (similarity 0.83)
• Preemptive drone targeting rests on epistemologically fragile predictions (similarity 0.81)
• Pattern-of-life strikes kill civilians through unconfirmed behavioral inference (similarity 0.81)
• Surveillance capitalism extracts behavioral surplus to predict and modify behavior. (similarity 0.80)
• Drones operationalize actuarial risk-based surveillance (similarity 0.78)
• Activity-based intelligence replaces identity with behavioral templates as targeting basis (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Surveillance capitalism extracts behavioral surplus to predict and modify behavior. #expands (0.65) — , The Braided Reading EPUB, 73
• Drone targeting decisions rest on probabilistic inference from behavior rather than observed facts. #exemplifies (0.60) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 482
• Predictive threat-detection rests on epistemologically fragile assumptions #complicates (0.55) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 198
• Drone targeting hinged on remote visual guesses about sex and combatant status #exemplifies (0.55)
• Administrative alarm hinged on predicting contagious parental sentiment #exemplifies (0.50)
• Deterrence among animals requires reliable advance prediction of fight outcomes #corroborates (0.45) — Emlen, Douglas J, Animal Weapons_ The Evolution of Battle, 598