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OPINION: Imagine the government passed a law requiring all citizens to carry a tracking device. Such a law would immediately be found unconstitutional. Yet we all carry mobile phones.
If the National Security Agency required us to notify it whenever we made a new friend, the nation would rebel. Yet we notify Facebook.
If the FBI demanded copies of all our conversations and correspondence, it would be laughed at.
Yet we provide copies of our email to Google, Microsoft or whoever our mail host is; we provide copies of our text messages to telecommunication firms; and we provide copies of other conversations to Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn or whatever other site is hosting them.
The primary business model of the internet is built on mass surveillance, and government intelligence-gathering agencies have become addicted to that data. Understanding how we got here is critical to understanding how we undo the damage.
More: http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/digital-living/8996269/Spy-agencies-addicted-to-corporate-data
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I new I wasn't crazy!, time to break every phone, PC and other online device! (Not really)
If the National Security Agency required us to notify it whenever we made a new friend, the nation would rebel. Yet we notify Facebook.
If the FBI demanded copies of all our conversations and correspondence, it would be laughed at.
Yet we provide copies of our email to Google, Microsoft or whoever our mail host is; we provide copies of our text messages to telecommunication firms; and we provide copies of other conversations to Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn or whatever other site is hosting them.
The primary business model of the internet is built on mass surveillance, and government intelligence-gathering agencies have become addicted to that data. Understanding how we got here is critical to understanding how we undo the damage.
More: http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/digital-living/8996269/Spy-agencies-addicted-to-corporate-data
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I new I wasn't crazy!, time to break every phone, PC and other online device! (Not really)