World Cup propels surveillance to new heights
More than $1 billion in U.S. security funding is driving facial recognition, drones and AI analytics that privacy groups warn could outlast the tournament.
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The Independent
The Independent (US)Going to the 2026 World Cup? Here’s how you could be tracked
AI-driven surveillance is playing a major role across the World Cup
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World Cup propels surveillance to new heights
Under the watchful eye of surveillance cameras, fans leave after the France-Senegal World Cup match in East Rutherford, N.J., on June 16, 2026. AP Photo/Ted ShaffreyThe 2026 FIFA World Cup is the largest sporting event in history. It’s also the most surveilled World Cup ever. If you’re visiting or traveling around host cities, then you and your face, behavior, movement and devices are being monitored by governments and private companies. The U.S…
Paul Verhoeven’s film satirized a future Detroit in which the state is the client of a technology corporation that controls the public and the private. The current world football tournament displays the largest “biometric surveillance operation of a sporting event,” says the author. Who will keep all that data? Read more
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