Your Smartphone Is Watching You
10th June 2013
RossDouthat reveals some inconvenient truth.
As the security expert Bruce Schneier wrote recently, it isn’t that the Internet has been penetrated by the surveillance state; it’s that the Internet, in effect, is a surveillance state.
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It is at least possible to participate in online culture while limiting this horizontal, peer-to-peer exposure. But it is practically impossible to protect your privacy vertically — from the service providers and social media networks and now security agencies that have access to your every click and text and e-mail. Even the powerful can’t cover their tracks, as David Petraeus discovered. In the surveillance state, everybody knows you’re a dog.
June 10th, 2013 at 09:53
“Can you hear me now?”
I don’t know – if I wasn’t already on the “O” Enemy List I’d be very disappointed. At least now I can rest easy knowing that they hear all the bad things I’m saying about them.