*Why Big Tech, Cops, and Spies Were Made for One Another
*
/The American surveillance state is a public-private partnership.
/
Cory Doctorow (16 dicembre 2023)
/(Cory Doctorow’s latest book is “The Internet Con: How to Seize the
Means of Computation.”)/
The techlash has finally reached the courts. Amazon’s in court. Google’s
in court. Apple’s under EU investigation. The French authorities just
kicked down Nvidia’s doors and went through their files looking for
evidence of crimes against competition. People are pissed at tech: about
moderation, about monopolization, about price gouging, about labor
abuses, and — everywhere and always — about privacy.
From experience, I can tell you that Silicon Valley techies are pretty
sanguine about commercial surveillance: “Why should I care if Google
wants to show me better ads?” But they are much less cool about
government spying: “The NSA? Those are the losers who weren’t smart
enough to get an interview at Google.”
And likewise from experience, I can tell you that government employees
and contractors are pretty cool with state surveillance: “Why would I
worry about the NSA spying on me? I already gave the Office of Personnel
Management a comprehensive dossier of all possible kompromat in my past
when I got my security clearance.” But they are far less cool with
commercial surveillance: “Google? Those creeps would sell their mothers
for a nickel. To the Chinese.”
What are they both missing? That American surveillance is a
public-private partnership: a symbiosis between a concentrated tech
sector that has the means, motive, and opportunity to spy on every
person in the world and a state that loves surveillance as much as it
hates checks and balances.
Big Tech, cops, and surveillance agencies were made for one another.
[...]
continua qui:
https://theintercept.com/2023/10/16/surveillance-state-big-tech/
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