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Looking forward to getting into this book. I loved her "Stealing MySpace" and the topic is all too relevant today. We live in a world of complete surveillance. If the NSA isn't watching you can bet many others are. Advertisers and otber aggregators vacuum up countless amoi ts of data about us and then mine it and package it and sell it to the Corporations to better make us do what they want of us namely consume.
Since Edward Snowden people have been more aware that someone is looking over their shoulder. But it did t start with Snowden and it wont end there. Today it takes a really.concerted efcorf to go online and remain anonymous. And the programs you have to use to do that, ie TOR actually trigger the a response. If I use certain programs to maintain anonymity that makes the NSA wonder what I'm hiding and they focus on me specifically. This according to P W Singer in his book Cybersecurity and Cyberwar. Seems like online surveillance is like that old hound dog humping your leg; best to just let him finish.
Talk about cameras everywhere, today at the gym im watching the news about a gas explosion in NYC. The news chopper was obsessed and constantly.following a drone flying over the site and presumably filming everything. The drone became the story. It was as if the chopper guy was saying to hell with the gas explosion, tbis is whats really happening. Maybe the news chopper pilot felt he was reading the writing on the wall for his irrelevance. For surely the day will come when drones will be everywhere filming everything.
24 I like how she tells us here that two unrelated events created a new industry. 911 caused the Feds to throw large sums of money up for anyone with security in their name to claim just as the dot com bubble burst and the dotcoms were looking c or new sources of new revenue. Hence the birth of the Surveillance-industrial complex was born.
45 Studies show streetlights are just as effective as cameras in reducing crime rates.
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173 So Daniel Haye is the cookie monster. He invented them in 1995.
203 Hey Julia you know your picture is on the dust jacket of this book right?
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Well that was scary. Yes Julia we live in a constantly monitored world. If you think about if too much it can drive you crazy. I really cant believe what the author went through to surc the web anonymously. I really can't see myself doing all that even though it does bother me that companies make mo ey on my data. I like her analogy of the organic food movement. How when that first started it was very harx to do and the food was expensive and not that appealing. But as the demand grew so did the utility. So maybe thats where we are at in online privacy. Seems bogus and "we better adopt some cool.rjles real soon or we'll just be bogus too."
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