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The Internet's True Surveillance Potential

posted by Dopefish on Saturday February 15 2014, @08:25AM   Printer-friendly
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."

 
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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by AudioGuy on Sunday February 16 2014, @05:09AM

    by AudioGuy (24) on Sunday February 16 2014, @05:09AM (#205) Journal

    Years ago, during the 1960's and 1970's there were all these reports of the FBI taking down big mafia players, uprooting corrupt mafia influenced officials, etc. After a while, it just stopped. Did organized crime end? Did not seem likely. I wondered what happened.

    Now I know.

    The Mafia won. They have complete control of government. And pretty much worldwide.

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