Outsourced Surveillance Annotation Risk

Private surveillance firms are increasingly outsourcing the human annotation that trains their AI to inexpensive, offshore gig workers. When that human workbench touches domestic camera footage—license plates, clothing, audio, alleged race detection—outsourcing creates cross‑border access to highly sensitive civic surveillance data, weakens oversight, and amplifies insider, privacy, and national‑security risks. — This reframes surveillance governance: regulation must cover not only camera deployment and algorithmic outputs but the global human labor pipeline that trains and reviews those systems.