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9/11 saw much of our privacy swept aside. Coronavirus could end it altogether
- aww_dang 6y ago"We ended 2019 with people around the world in the process of waking up and appreciating the fact that surveillance capitalists have amassed these immense empires of unaccountable power. They have been given a free pass to do whatever they wanted: to steal our experience secretly, and combine that data to predict our behavior, then sell those predictions and become trillion-dollar companies." People are voluntarily surrendering their data to FB. The author brands this surveillance capitalism. The post 9/11 expansion of the police state is invoked. It seems a bit of a non-sequitor to blame capitalism for government overreach. Even more so to opine for further government power as a solution to government excess.