
About a month ago, without any announcement, a large camera tower was placed in the middle of Marche Maisonneuve, Hochelaga. The tower was a new tool of AI camera surveillance developed by the local enemy company GardaWorld. These towers of control are being rolled out all over North America by the thousands by the company’s new subsidiary ECAM. Enraged by the continued encroachment of surveillance technology in our lives and emboldened by a winter full of attacks on cameras in the city, we decided to do something about it.
We went out one night, toppled the tower and destroyed the cameras. We were filled with joy to discover that others had gotten there first, in what was clearly an attempt to burn the tower. ECAM claims that, using AI technology, this tower will alert authorities of suspicious activity before a crime is committed. They clearly failed to do so fast enough.
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