Cryptome recently published a collection of declassified intelligence
documents from Italy at the end of WW2
(https://cryptome.org/cic/cic-italy/cic-italy.html)
While today everyone talks about surveillance, it's interesting to look
at the history, to understand what it really is. Contemporary machine
collecting is impersonal, detached and appears benign to many.
This particular document, for example -
https://cryptome.org/cic/cic-italy/cic-italy-10SEP46.pdf, demonstrates
meticulous and pedantic manual transcribing of seemingly irrelevant
information. Someone spent hours, if not days, compiling this, which
means that it is *not* irrelevant.
Compare this to the cheap automated collection we have today, and how
much the balance has been shifted.
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