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Re:Age of surveillance: the fish is rotting from its head by motters on Friday January 14, 2011 @06:57PM (#2105908)
The battle for privacy was lost during the last decade - as in "we lost the war".

http://media.ccc.de/browse/congress/2005/22C3-920-en-we_lost...

The best we can hope for in future is a transparent or sousveillance society where an informational balance of power is maintained. Currently the main bottleneck is ISPs, and these are points of weakness where top-down control can be introduced to a greater or lesser extent.

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Re:Age of surveillance: the fish is rotting from its head by randallsquared on Friday January 14, 2011 @07:39PM (#2106037)
The end of privacy was a foregone conclusion: with such rapidly falling cost for video and audio hardware, the only way to keep privacy would be totalitarianism.
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Re:Age of surveillance: the fish is rotting from its head by mvalle on Friday January 14, 2011 @08:11PM (#2106117)
Oh, the irony...
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Re:Age of surveillance: the fish is rotting from its head by fjh on Saturday January 15, 2011 @08:41AM (#2106969)
It should be mentioned that Rop admitted at last year's congress that they were too pessimistic and that things are actually better than they looked back than. The German constitutional court has been surprisingly effective in stopping many of the government's surveillance initiatives, which no one really expected back then. Of course, none of this really contradicts your main point, but I thought the change of opinion of the speakers might be interesting.
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Re:Age of surveillance: the fish is rotting from its head by JoachimSchipper on Saturday January 15, 2011 @12:33PM (#2107341)
I really like the "Flash version 9,0 or greater is required". ;-)
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