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Study Exposes Computer Vision's Role in Pervasive Surveillance

  • On 25 June 2025, researchers published a study in Nature revealing that computer vision research extensively enables surveillance of people worldwide.
  • The study analyzed over 40,000 papers and patents from the 1990s to 2010s, showing a five-fold rise in surveillance-related patents tied to computer vision research.
  • Researchers found that ambiguous language in documents, often calling humans 'objects', masks the true extent of surveillance linked to computer vision technologies.
  • In a manual review, 90% of sampled papers and 86% of patents dealt with data on humans, with 78% of 2010s patents linked to surveillance, described as “pervasive and normalised.”
  • The findings imply urgent threats to privacy and rights, prompting calls for computer vision researchers to adopt critical inquiry, conscientious objection, and ethical advocacy.
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Despite numerous advantages, computer vision and its presence threaten fundamental rights such as privacy, freedom of expression and movement, the study indicates.

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Analysis of 42,000 studies and patents shows that the development of machine vision is primarily aimed at tracking humans

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Nature broke the news in United Kingdom on Wednesday, June 25, 2025.
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