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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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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By surveillance architecture, are you talking about the pragmatic problems of the creation of pools of data, secured to varying extents, as opposed to (in your 1st tweet) the politics of the social contract between the govt & citizens re: their data? I agree both are v important
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Yes, the technical and economic apparatus of the surveillance economy as deployed.
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