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 arenât given much of
a choice. Itâs either
surveillance or nothing, and
the surveillance is
conveniently invisible so you
donât have to think about it.â
â
5. In the 17th century, the French
statesman Cardinal Richelieu
famously said, âShow me six lines
written by the most honest man in
the world, and I will ďŹnd enough
therein to hang him.â
Lavrentiy Beria, head of Joseph
Stalinâs secret police in the old
Soviet Union, declared, âShow me
the man, and Iâll show you the
crime.â
Both were saying the same thing: if
you have enough data about
someone, you can ďŹnd suďŹcient
evidence to ďŹnd him guilty of
something.â
â
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. Â
19. UK ministers want to make it a
criminal oďŹence for tech ďŹrms 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).â
--Techspot
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