He also solved the crime by knowing the plot in advance
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I like Worf's turn as Sherlock. He just keeps meklething suspects until someone yields.
Data used mass surveillance when he saw your mom
But to be fair mr Data did misuse AI irresponsiblly also (to create Moriarty)
That was Geordie though.
Geordi is probably also guilty of mass surveillance. He admitted to peeking at the cards in poker for curiosity so how can we know that he wasn't tempted to look through a duratanium door or wall every now and then?
That was simply because he was a pervert! He would never spy on behalf of the state.
Are we talking about how he used AI to recreate his special lady friend the engineer who designed the ship, and then he eventually meets her for real and she’s like “yeah you’re super creepy dude.” Or are we talking about some other weird shit Geordi does?
Then the audience goes on to write a lot of fanfic...
Reginald ~~Broccoli~~ Barclay approves this position
To be fair, didn't Barclay turn himself into a panopticon by enmeshing his brain with the ship's computer that one time? Is it a loophole in "mass surveillance" if you just happen to have eyes all over a starship?
His excuse (in retrospect) was "Alien technology did this to me, so how can I refuse?!" 😄 Plus, the mass surveillance existed on the ship before him and all crew members seem to be fine with that when signing on. Given who he was before and during the event in question probably caused a few people, like Deanna, to ask Geordi to do in her quarters what he did in the conference room for privacy.
Data is ai
Also without using AI. Oh wait...
He didn't need to, the Enterprise had all the internal and external sensors to do it for him.
You can just ask the ships computer where anyone is at any time. Seems like a big privacy violation from the get go.
"Computer, locate Ensign Boimler"
"Ensign Boimler is in the Emergency Medical Crisis Lavatory on Deck 4."
Part of the difference is that most Starfleet officers have the discipline to not do such things. A point that was brought up in TNG s1e26 "The Neutral Zone":
PICARD: I'm Captain Picard.
RALPH: Excellent. Now, maybe we'll be able to get some things straightened out.
PICARD: We may indeed. Those comm. panels are for official ship business.
RALPH: If they are so important, why don't they need an executive key?
PICARD: Aboard a starship, that is not necessary. We are all capable of exercising self-discipline. Now, you will refrain from using them.
There are still plenty of foreign visitors on the Enterprise, not to mention all the literal children living there. I always found the reasoning provided by Picard there rather silly.
I don't think "reasoning" is the right perspective to examine Picard's comment from. He's not making a debate point, Picard is politely telling Ralph that he's acting like an assclown and that it WILL stop.
Plus the computer can figure out who is using it, and lock them out as necessary. "Hero Worship" has Data point out to a child that he couldn't have blown up a starship by leaning on the console, because it can detect that, and not register the controls. And we know that there are ship functions that are keyed behind an authentication code, like the self-destruct system.
But he probably doesn't need to explain that to Ralph, since it'd not be that relevant. What'd be more important in that moment to get him to stop causing trouble.
The rod was still firmly crammed up his chiseled ass at that time. After the Borg and Data's 1st death, he became a touch more grounded and cynical.
Well it's a utopia, not a dystopia. Or so it has been shown to us.
Can you? The only people who we've seen use that feature are people who would be the authority to do so anyway, like the Captain/First officer.
Does he? He could literally be interfacing with the holodeck off-camera and know everything about the program.
He could... but he won't, bc ethics (and a desire to be more human) 😁
mass spectrometry is a form of mass surveillance
Looking at a mirror that is behind me is m'ass surveilance.
jokes on you, though. he has material substance, and he has eyes. mass surveillance, you rubes!
Stop it. You are confusing the cops. You are telling them to not use mass surveillance but to refer to Data
I mean… how do you know what sort of api calls he’s making and databases he’s querying on the backend?
I don't know if he actually has wireless access.
Well, after all, he is (wiggles eyebrows) fully functional. He probably just needs to erect his antenna.