Spain has raised the trophy, but the silent winner of the 2026 World Cup has been another: social surveillance technologies. The tournament has served to normalize the deployment of cameras, drones and artificial intelligence systems (IA) to monitor the streets and stadiums, a pattern that has been repeated in other international sporting events and that could be replicated in our country, host of the football competition in 2030 with 11 venues …
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Spain has raised the trophy, but the silent winner of the 2026 World Cup has been another: social surveillance technologies. The tournament has served to normalize the deployment of cameras, drones and artificial intelligence systems (IA) to monitor the streets and stadiums, a pattern that has been repeated in other international sporting events and that could be replicated in our country, host of the football competition in 2030 with 11 venues …