#Surveillance

In 2015, the International Atomic Energy Agency paid Palantir Technologies fifty million dollars for a software platform called Mosaic. Mosaic was a predictive-analytics engine designed to help IAEA inspectors plan 'unscheduled probes,'…

China, the EU, India, the US, the UK — the control grid compared component by component. The gap between the systems is closing; the table shows which pieces each one has already built.

The government cannot warrantlessly collect the data, so it buys the same data from private brokers instead — a purchase that launders the prohibition, sourced end to end.

AI safety teams dissolved when they conflicted with product velocity; surveillance vendors selling to authoritarian regimes; security vendors captured or owned by state actors. Routed from the security-charlatans corpus.

Identifying a face in a crowd, country by country — China's SkyNet, the EU's banned-with-exceptions AI Act, India's no-framework rollout, the US Clearview-scraping model and the UK's Met Police live deployment. The component the Convergence Index scores.

Australia's automated debt recovery system sent 433,000 unlawful debts. Rhys Cauzzo got 12 letters and made 13 phone calls. Jenny Miller fought for 8 years. 663 people died.

The most important convergence case study. A democracy building China-scale infrastructure — and sometimes constraining it. Speed vs. direction.

Chinese state-sponsored hackers compromised at least nine US telecom companies: AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, Lumen, Spectrum, Consolidated Communications, Windstream. Specifically targeted the CALEA-mandated lawful-intercept systems — the wiretapping backdoors the US government required telecoms to build.

Reference document for institutional control infrastructure research. Covers workplace algorithmic management, employee monitoring software, and the consumer IoT surveillance ecosystem.

The foundation layer. Everything in the modern AI control grid is built on top of this.

The thesis: every surveillance capability governments build eventually gets turned against them.

What they monitor: Webcam, audio, screen, keystroke patterns, eye tracking, room scans. ExamSoft collects 'retina or iris scan, fingerprint, voiceprint, or scan of hand or face geometry.'