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US PATRIOT Act essentially normalized domestic spying with FISA courts rubber stamping warrants in the name of “war on terror”. Privacy advocates lost once thos
by xyst 3y ago
US PATRIOT Act essentially normalized domestic spying with FISA courts rubber stamping warrants in the name of “war on terror”. Privacy advocates lost once those towers fell on 2001-09-11.
Millennials pushed the aging fossils into the digital world (e-banking/mobile banking, almost everything is digitalized today). Social media changed the way we interact with people. The concept of privacy continues to erode.
Gen Z and future generations continuing the trend. Often just giving away their information for likes/impressions/views. Everything has been recorded in one way or another. Relationships also built on “no privacy” (couples often know their phone passcodes …). Children raised in dystopian households where privacy does not exist (parents have access to everything). Future generations conditioned to obey.
Now it’s bleeding from private life into the work with invasive AI models deployed to determine seditious activity as deemed by Karen in HR or Jeff from C-level exec suite because he gets a nice kickback (via speaker fees) after getting approached by AI company.
Next level is totalitarian, surveillance state monitoring as depicted in 1984. Skip the middleman (private companies vacuuming up all the data and selling to govt).
Data. DNA. No stone unturned.
- coldtea 3y ago>Skip the middleman (private companies vacuuming up all the data and selling to govt). Why skip it? Keep it and enlarge it. Then you get to have your cake (total surveilance) and eat it too (it's not the government doing it! we're just buying those private sector data). Same way you can censor as a government and still be all about "free speech"! You just let the private sector do the censoring - with a little carrot and stick encouragement from you, they know what they have to do and will even jump at the chance without you having to explicitly ask them.
- respectmysoa 3y ago[dead]
- TeMPOraL 3y agoYou're making it sound like there's some kind of plan behind it. There is no conspiracy. There won't be a direct "skip the middleman" totalitarian level, because governments are too busy chasing their own tails and smelling the farts in a 4-year election cycle to consider anything of a broader scope. Meanwhile, private companies are chasing easy money at the expense of anything that's good, honest or nice, like they always do. We walked into this situation through decades of individual selfishness, aggregated.
- snypher 3y agoThis is why I believe that it will be a corporate-ocracy, as the corporation has a much longer lifespan than some political short-term influence. However corporations can also 'fly too close to the flame' in the political sphere. Whoever comes out on top will be the product of their own political ideology and not the red-vs-blue politics.
- respectmysoa 3y ago[dead]
- williamcotton 3y agoThe concept of the public space is also eroding and it is overshadowed on these forums by privacy advocates. Privacy is indeed important but only up to the limit that it intrudes upon the public accountability necessary for a republic to function. We seem fine with letting governments and large corporations know where we live and how much we pay in taxes yet are hesitant to make this information public due to fear of our fellow citizens. That is a complete erosion of social trust and cohesion. Someone please put a science-fiction sheen on the death of the public sphere. There is more than the dominant 1984-inspired narratives at play!
- __loam 3y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MD_CMrCpBMc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MD_CMrCpBMc Our cities are missing third places.