progression of technologies

[Mirimir]

On 06/26/2015 09:53 PM, Steve Kinney wrote:
> On 06/25/2015 12:22 PM, Lodewijk andré de la porte wrote:
>> 2015-06-25 21:44 GMT+09:00 z9wahqvh <z9wahqvh at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:z9wahqvh at gmail.com>>:
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>> this is absolutely tremendous, original, and insightful. in my 
>> opinion.
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>> This is exceedingly strange coming from an In-Q-Tel security 
>> officer. In-Q-Tel basically invests in anything performing
>> more collections in the US.
> 
> That was my first reaction as well:  But on close inspection he
> seems take the exponential growth of universal surveillance as a
> given, while the ability to correlate the collected information
> into actionable intelligence can and should be restricted to large
> organizations:  "Most privacy laws exist to block government
> actions. A few exist to block private institutional actions. But
> none exist to block individuals' actions."
> 
> I interpret this as a response to the accelerating progress of
> open source collection and analysis into contexts formerly
> monopolized by State and Corporate actors.  A war of sorts is
> already underway on this front; else why is Barrett Brown doing
> time for the crime of investigative journalism?  Nobody stands to
> lose more in a truly open society than our professional secret
> keepers and sanctioned violators of the secrets of others.  Like
> the good folks who pay the bills at In-Q-Tel.

Good catch! So he's calling for laws to restrict surveillance and
correlation by private institutions and individuals.

Now his position makes sense :(

> Recent events including the exposure of Federal employee records
> and the integration of ICWatch data into Wikileaks' searchable
> archives may be weighing heavily on the minds of State and
> Corporate strategists.  What good is owning a Panopticon if the
> prisoners have data terminals where they can watch the guards and
> their employers as they go about their daily lives?
> 
> Secrecy as we know it may be on the way out:  With the advent of
> networked everything, the secrecy tax Julian Assange wrote about
> years ago keeps growing and may reach a tipping point where State
> and Corporate secrecy no longer pays.
> 
> Propaganda as we know it may be on the way out:  With the advent
> of networked everybody, identity groups and market segments
> created and manipulated by broadcast propaganda are running on
> inertia.  The 'ego casting' and 'echo chamber' effects that
> segregate the Internet today are at best leaky containers whose
> walls are getting thinner all the time.
> 
> I wouldn't mind a world where privacy is a thing of the past, as
> long as the playing field is reasonably level.  Control of access
> to information is the key to controlling whole societies; both
> secrecy and propaganda are essential to the operation of any
> repressive regime.  Could authoritarian State and Corporate
> institutions exist in a world without privacy, where bad faith
> actors have no hiding places?  A world where control of news,
> information, education and entertainment is diffused across tens
> of millions of actors?
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