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Surveillance: too cheap to meter

Journal by quietus

Either we slap a stiff tax on surveillance data, or we learn to love the panopticon.

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  • (Score: 2) by quietus on Saturday February 19 2022, @06:48PM

    by quietus (6328) on Saturday February 19 2022, @06:48PM (#1223187) Journal

    One of the other legs of the article is that surveillance is core to the business model of Big Tech (Google, Amazon). They do not care whether the government is the buyer and, looking at the size of the ad industry, government mostly isn't the buyer either.

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