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Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Oct-2023 00:36:13 JST Aral Balkan
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- Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic “The NSA didn't wake up and say, ‘Let's just spy on everybody.’ They looked up and said, ‘Wow, corporations are spying on everybody. Let's get ourselves a copy.’” —Bruce Schneier, cryptographer and security specialist.

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- Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Oct-2023 00:36:15 JST Cory Doctorow
  
  Why #BigTech, Cops, and Spies Were Made for One Another
  https://theintercept.com/2023/10/16/surveillance-state-big-tech/
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  1. From experience, I can tell you that Silicon Valley techies are pretty sanguine about commercial surveillance: “Why should I care if Google wants to show me better ads?” But they are much less cool about government spying: “The NSA? Those are the losers who weren’t smart enough to get an interview at Google.” And likewise from experience, I can tell you that government employees and contractors are pretty cool with state surveillance: “Why would I worry about the NSA spying on me? I already gave the Office of Personnel Management a comprehensive dossier of all possible kompromat in my past when I got my security clearance.” But they are far less cool with commercial surveillance: “Google? Those creeps would sell their mothers for a nickel. To the Chinese.” What are they both missing? That American surveillance is a public-private partnership: a symbiosis between a concentrated tech sector that has the means, motive, and opportunity to spy on every person in the world and a state that loves surveillance as much as it hates checks and balances. Big Tech, cops, and surveillance agencies were made for one another.
    https://mamot.fr/system/media_attachments/files/111/244/653/850/908/994/original/e55bbd7c12450a0b.png
  2. Why Big Tech, Cops, and Spies Were Made for One Another
    
    from Roger Hodge
    
    The American surveillance state is a public-private partnership, writes Cory Doctorow.

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