TL;DR: This project is not so much about political transparency as it is about the erosion of individual privacy due to the proliferation of government surveillance cameras and AI-driven data analysis.
What most people seem to overlook: Dries Depoorter is an artist/activist interested in the intersection of privacy, artificial intelligence, surveillance & social media.
Flemish cities are installing surveillance cameras and ANPR cameras everywhere, and they're quickly doubling back on their promise that they'll only be used for tracking serious (organised) crime. Already there have been attempts to use the cameras to enforce lockdown related curfew rules and to surveil streets that have been vandalised with spray paint.
What most people seem to overlook: Dries Depoorter is an artist/activist interested in the intersection of privacy, artificial intelligence, surveillance & social media.
Flemish cities are installing surveillance cameras and ANPR cameras everywhere, and they're quickly doubling back on their promise that they'll only be used for tracking serious (organised) crime. Already there have been attempts to use the cameras to enforce lockdown related curfew rules and to surveil streets that have been vandalised with spray paint.