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The Internet's True Surveillance Potential

posted by Dopefish on Saturday February 15 2014, @08:25AM   
from the the-nsa-is-watching-you dept.

sgleysti writes: "In an article titled, "Is the Internet good or bad? Yes.", Zeynep Tufekci explores the true powers of internet surveillance for corporations and governments, using the Gezi Park protests in Turkey as a foil. He explains how the well-known scenarios of 1984 and the Panopticon fail to imagine a powerful and salient use of Big Data in modern democratic societies: the ability to persuade individuals through personally-tailored messages that no-one else hears. He considers how this is far more subtle and compelling than traditional mass media and explores the irony that the internet which has enabled grass-roots protests worldwide also grants powerful entities a new means of influencing large segments of the population."

• Reality Check Reality Check (Score: 1) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 15 2014, @11:49AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 15 2014, @11:49AM (#149)

  Computers are good and all, but stories like this just bring the message home: it's not OK to let tech rule your every waking moment, it's like selling your soul to beta.

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• Re:Reality Check (Score: 2, Insightful) by sgleysti on Saturday February 15 2014, @03:08PM

  by sgleysti (56) on Saturday February 15 2014, @03:08PM (#154)

  "it's like selling your soul to beta."

  Somehow, that seems worse.

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• Re:Reality Check (Score: 0, Offtopic) by Cactus on Saturday February 15 2014, @07:52PM

  by Cactus (32) on Saturday February 15 2014, @07:52PM (#169) Journal

  Jus' commenting, testing, poking around.

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