UN warns of rise of 'cybertorture' to bypass physical ban

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This is a Guardian news article of UN ( United Nations ) report about growing concerns regarding new ways to efficiently psychologically harass a person in ordinary daily life scenarios, bypassing the current laws that prohibit torture. Emerging new technologies enables these new types of tactics to be highly psychologically lethal, because AI can be used in conjunction with brain-to-computer interfaces (bci) to precisely organize the harassment activities, and its synchronization, that in its core rely on "torture-by repetition" method.
Every repeated action with trivial and mundane tasks hundreds of times daily, every day, every month, year, lifetime, can induce a synthetic complex-post-traumatic stress disorder, because the cumulative effect of amount of micro-stress is increased , because events are orchestrated in repetitive organized fashion it will have negative outcome on a individual life and psychological well-being.(be it same repetitive sound, event, lights etc ) We are at the beginning of a regulative, and it will take quite some time to at least mitigate some of its most serious effects.
Unfortunately, the main issue is that corruption, big money from these projects and aspects of human trafficking are preventing this to be resolved, as well as lack of organizational, technological and societal awareness.
Source:
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2020/feb/21/un-rapporteur-warns-of-rise-of-cybertorture-to-bypass-physical-ban

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