Pretty much all of the current discussion I see around surveillance and the pandemic is framed like this: "to what extent can we balance new state surveillance with privacy", often citing post-9/11 spying powers as a cautionary example, and it's driving me a little bit bonkers.
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If a government wants any of that unregulated, permanently stored information, it has a lot of options. It can just hack in and take it (like China has often done) or it can ask nicely (like the U.S. government has done) and the private sector just hands it over.
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I would like to see this surveillance *architecture* partially dismantled and then closely regulated, as I believe it poses a mortal threat to democracy in the long term, particularly since most of it is run by a tech oligopoly already deeply embedded in our political system.
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The fixation on state surveillance in particular, the only part of this system that is subject to any legal controls and oversight, is a dangerous failure of imagination by Big Privacy that is likely to lead us away from the effective laws and trade-offs they purport to seek.
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Aren't there some limits on telcos, the practical effect of which is to move even more of the surveillance rents towards social media companies and data brokers?
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Yes, I believe this is true. I need to learn more of the nitty-gritty
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