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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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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this is precisely why i believe that they currently aren’t and won’t ever be properly regulated. the u.s. government benefits from these shady companies. to wit: whenever they get caught the punishment is always a token slap on the wrist. they have a symbiotic relationship.
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