AUGUST 29, 2022|GOVERNMENT & POLITICS
French Government Uses Aerial AI To Detect Undeclared Swimming Pools and Tax Homeowners
Depending on your perspective, this may seem like a concerning example of government surveillance or an ingenious usage of tech to expose tax evasion. Either way, a pilot program from the French government to take aerial photographs of swimming pools and tax the homeowners who failed to declare them may not be a unique case study.
In coming years, governments and others will increasingly use available technology like this to enforce rules, gather information and generate revenue. In this future some things (like a pool) might be impossible to keep secret anymore.
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