“Within the next few years,” he writes, “it will...

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

“Within the next few years,” he writes, “it will be technically possible and financially feasible for authoritarian governments to record nearly everything that is said or done within their borders - every phone conversation, electronic message, social media interaction, the movements of nearly every person and vehicle, and video from every street corner.” The machinery for such monitoring - from intercepting electronic communications to recording images of faces and licence plates in public spaces - already exists and is rapidly improving. Yet, it is the plummeting cost of data storage that makes total surveillance a real possibility.”

Total surveillance society is almost here (via wreckandsalvage)

Not just within their borders, but every piece of data that passes through networks housed or operating within their borders. The internet doesn’t understand or follow agreed-upon lines drawn in the sand.

(via spytap)