{"id":22403,"date":"2026-03-21T14:37:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T13:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/21\/how-the-fbi-can-conduct-mass-surveillance-even-without-ai\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T14:37:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T13:37:26","slug":"how-the-fbi-can-conduct-mass-surveillance-even-without-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/21\/how-the-fbi-can-conduct-mass-surveillance-even-without-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"How the FBI can conduct mass surveillance \u2013 even without AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anthropic fought against the government\u2019s misuse of its technology, but authorities are buying Americans\u2019 data, enabling them to surveil citizens at scale<\/p>\n<p>The FBI declares it can conduct mass surveillance without AI, despite Anthropic\u2019s protest.<\/p>\n<p>A central part of the standoff between Anthropic and the Department of Defense has revolved around the artificial intelligence firm\u2019s refusal to allow its technology to be used for mass domestic surveillance. Yet even without the cooperation of AI firms, remarks this week from Kash Patel, FBI director, show how authorities are by any reasonable measure already operating a system that can surveil citizens at scale.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/mar\/21\/fbi-mass-surveillance-data-artificial-intelligence\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/85381e33fb8133b0156817c67c850a3de7afa858\/610_0_4443_3555\/master\/4443.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=b607a00f8cf53b3581ba1149af36f184\" title=\"How the FBI can conduct mass surveillance \u2013 even without AI\" \/>Anthropic fought against the government\u2019s misuse of its technology, but authorities are buying Americans\u2019 data, enabling them to surveil citizens at scale<br \/>\nThe FBI declares it can conduct mass surveillance without AI, despite Anthropic\u2019s protest.<br \/>\nA central part of the standoff between Anthropic and the Department of Defense has revolved around the artificial intelligence firm\u2019s refusal to allow its technology to be used for mass domestic surveillance. Yet even without the cooperation of AI firms, remarks this week from Kash Patel, FBI director, show how authorities are by any reasonable measure already operating a system that can surveil citizens at scale. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthropic fought against the government\u2019s misuse of its technology, but authorities are buying Americans\u2019 data, enabling them to surveil citizens at scale The FBI declares it can conduct mass surveillance without AI, despite Anthropic\u2019s protest. A central part of the standoff between Anthropic and the Department of Defense has revolved around the artificial intelligence firm\u2019s &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/21\/how-the-fbi-can-conduct-mass-surveillance-even-without-ai\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How the FBI can conduct mass surveillance \u2013 even without AI<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":22404,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22403"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}