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Cambridge Analytica
The bulldozing of data into higher and higher piles to be gone through by swarms of seagulls selling items or ideas to your demographic and ideology is building toward a future where all news and all ideas are suspect. Welcome … Continue reading
Chelsea Manning Warning on Big Data
Chelsea Manning Warning on Big Data This is from a few months ago, but necessary to share if this site can be a useful tool for maintaining a watch on surveillance use. “In 2010, the iPhone was only three years … Continue reading
Beware Big Data
“. . . Cambridge Analytica could target people high in neuroticism, for example, with images of immigrants “swamping” the country. The key is finding emotional triggers for each individual voter.” https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/07/the-great-british-brexit-robbery-hijacked-democracy Heed this warning about psychological operations as developed by … Continue reading
Hypernormalization
https://thoughtmaybe.com/hypernormalisation/?lang=en This is a cautionary tale about the ability of corporations to gather our information and use it to synthesize our world views in to ordered bubbles that can be more easily controlled. Talk about divide and conquer! It’s a … Continue reading
CIA Wikileaked
If you ever wanted to know how the CIA does it, being omniscient, look at this. All kinds of tips on tools they use to invade our privacy. https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/
More Surveillance History
Here is a good history of political surveillance and its future as activists learn what to look for and how to avoid it. http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/7284-infiltration-of-political-movements-is-the-norm-not-the-exception-in-the-united-states
Keep police honest–Look back!
PBS report on police caught on police misbehavior. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/10-videos-to-watch-from-chicagos-police-misconduct-investigators/
The Plot Thickens
The plot has thickened on the surveillance story in just the two weeks since this site came to being. Feds are demanding that Apple stop being more secretive than they are and give over their security logarithm to NSA. The … Continue reading
Big Brother is Watching, but, Who Cares? 