Doctorow, "Why Big Tech, Cops, and Spies Were Made for One Another"
*Why Big Tech, Cops, and Spies Were Made for One Another * /The American surveillance state is a public-private partnership. / Cory Doctorow (16 dicembre 2023) /(Cory Doctorow’s latest book is “The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation.”)/ The techlash has finally reached the courts. Amazon’s in court. Google’s in court. Apple’s under EU investigation. The French authorities just kicked down Nvidia’s doors and went through their files looking for evidence of crimes against competition. People are pissed at tech: about moderation, about monopolization, about price gouging, about labor abuses, and — everywhere and always — about privacy. 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. [...] continua qui: https://theintercept.com/2023/10/16/surveillance-state-big-tech/
Il 16 ottobre 2023 14:27:14 CEST, "J.C. DE MARTIN" <juancarlos.demartin@polito.it> ha scritto:
*Why Big Tech, Cops, and Spies Were Made for One Another * /The American surveillance state is a public-private partnership. /
Lo diceva Bruce Schneier nel 2013: "Surveillance is the business model of the internet, and business surveillance gives goverments access to data they couldn't get otherwise" https://i.redsnake.io/watch?v=h0d_QDgl3gI&t=190s rob
In Italia il GPDP, che ha inflitto una multa pesantissima alla Bocconi per aver svolto esami remoti con un prodotto poco sicuro. ha ignorato il fatto che la maggioranza delle scuole italiane per anni ha continuato a usare ben noti prodotti vietati dalle norme di legge comunitarie e nazionali. ________________________________ From: nexa <nexa-bounces@server-nexa.polito.it> on behalf of J.C. DE MARTIN <juancarlos.demartin@polito.it> Sent: Monday, October 16, 2023 2:27 PM To: Nexa <nexa@server-nexa.polito.it> Subject: [nexa] Doctorow, "Why Big Tech, Cops, and Spies Were Made for One Another" Why Big Tech, Cops, and Spies Were Made for One Another The American surveillance state is a public-private partnership. Cory Doctorow (16 dicembre 2023) (Cory Doctorow’s latest book is “The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation.”) The techlash has finally reached the courts. Amazon’s in court. Google’s in court. Apple’s under EU investigation. The French authorities just kicked down Nvidia’s doors and went through their files looking for evidence of crimes against competition. People are pissed at tech: about moderation, about monopolization, about price gouging, about labor abuses, and — everywhere and always — about privacy.
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. [...] continua qui: https://theintercept.com/2023/10/16/surveillance-state-big-tech/
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