At best, Persona can be used to create comprehensive surveillance graphs of users for the companies it serves, the researchers say. At worst, the software could file automated reports directly with the government.

How is this “at best”? Am I too tired to comprehend this properly right now? They both sound terrible.

“The state wants to see everything. The corporations want to see everything. And they’ve learned to work together.”

In other words: The capitalist class wants to see everything. Therefore, the state, which in this case is controlled by capital, wants to see everything. And they’re furthering the consolidation of the two in response to the decay of capitalism, which creates… fascism.

It seems that they are basically trying to figure out how to use automation to actually do the kind of total surveillance stuff they accuse socialist states of doing (which the socialist states never actually did). The one reassuring part is it will no doubt have internal contradictions to it.