3. Surveillance is the business
model of the Internet for
two primary reasons: people
like free, and people like
convenient.
The truth is, though, that
people aren’t given much of
a choice. It’s either
surveillance or nothing, and
the surveillance is
conveniently invisible so you
don’t have to think about it.”
“
5. In the 17th century, the French
statesman Cardinal Richelieu
famously said, ‘Show me six lines
written by the most honest man in
the world, and I will find enough
therein to hang him.’
Lavrentiy Beria, head of Joseph
Stalin’s secret police in the old
Soviet Union, declared, ‘Show me
the man, and I’ll show you the
crime.’
Both were saying the same thing: if
you have enough data about
someone, you can find sufficient
evidence to find him guilty of
something.”
“
16. Tensions #4 + #5
-- The Snowden
Revelations and
the ISIS Threat.
4+
5
17. After being burned by NSA in the
Snowden revelations, private
companies announced policies to
inform their customers when they
were under government
surveillance.
19. UK ministers want to make it a
criminal offence for tech firms to
warn users of requests for access to
their communication data made by
security organizations such as MI5,
MI6 and GCHQ (the Government
Communications Headquarters).”
--Techspot
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