https://locodigital.com.br/en/tags/surveillance/Recent content in Surveillance on LocodigitalHugoen-USFri, 25 Sep 2026 09:00:00 -0300https://locodigital.com.br/en/movies-and-tv/person-of-interest-ai-surveillance-privacy/Fri, 25 Sep 2026 09:00:00 -0300https://locodigital.com.br/en/movies-and-tv/person-of-interest-ai-surveillance-privacy/<p>In 2011, a TV series portrayed a secret AI called "the Machine" that analyzed cameras, phone calls, emails, and cellphone metadata from every American — in real time — to predict crimes and terrorist threats. The government knew. Nobody else did. In June 2013, Edward Snowden released documents proving that the NSA had been doing exactly that through the PRISM program. Fiction had a two-year head start.</p> <h2>What is Person of Interest</h2> <p>Person of Interest was created by Jonathan Nolan (Christopher Nolan's brother, co-writer of The Dark Knight and Interstellar) and aired on CBS from 2011 to 2016 — five seasons, 103 episodes. The premise: Harold Finch (Michael Emerson), an eccentric billionaire and computing genius, built "the Machine" for the U.S. government as a post-9/11 counterterrorism tool. The Machine watches everyone. Finch kept a backdoor: the "numbers" — ordinary people the AI flags as involved in imminent crimes, but whose stories are deemed "irrelevant" by national security. He recruits a former CIA operative, John Reese (Jim Caviezel), to intervene.</p>