Re:HBGary, Palantir, Prism, Facebook and The Industrial Surv...
by PavlovsCat on Tuesday July 02, 2013 @04:01PM
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I don't consider it a secret who my friends are, not even most of my conversations. But there is a difference between that, and the industrialized scooping up of it, the storing and correlating it forever... me, today, is not what worries me; Dr. Strangelove is.
Imagine spooks following you all day, each day, and every time after you talked with someone, they walk up to them and ask what the conversation was about. Imagine dozens of spooks per individual, each of them constantly taking notes on paper that does not perish. This is the society we live in, the society that we built while sleepwalking. Even the spooks aren't aware of what they're doing, not really.
Imagine spooks following you all day, each day, and every time after you talked with someone, they walk up to them and ask what the conversation was about. Imagine dozens of spooks per individual, each of them constantly taking notes on paper that does not perish. This is the society we live in, the society that we built while sleepwalking. Even the spooks aren't aware of what they're doing, not really.