The Modern Surveillance State (Documentary)
Nice overview of the essentials. Transcript and sources.
Category: Cryptopticon
Davos 2016 – What If: Your Brain Confesses?
As neuroscientists decipher the workings of the brain, new questions will be raised about decoding memories, ascertaining intentions and defusing criminal behaviour. What if neuro-evidence is invited into the courtroom? Join an in-depth discussion...
Seeing The Secret State: Six Landscapes
Although people around the world are becoming increasingly aware of the United States’ global geography of surveillance, covert action, and other secret programs, much of this landscape is invisible in our everyday lives. The...
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Panoptic Age: Entering the Pupil of the All-Seeing Eye
by Paul & Phillip D. Collins ©, Apr. 2nd, 2007 George Orwell’s 1984 captured the totalitarian vision of a surveillance society with frighteningly vivid precision. Years later, deceased philosopher Michel Foucault would expound upon...
Bruce Schneier: NSA Surveillance and What To Do About It
Good video from Bruce Schneier. A few choice excerpts follow: Follow that guy last month. The death of ephemeral conversation. Systems that never forget (9:40) …a public-private-surveillance partnership (9:58) … We have built systems...
Through a PRISM, Darkly: Everything We Know About NSA Spying
From Stellar Wind to PRISM, Boundless Informant to EvilOlive, the NSA spying programs are shrouded in secrecy and rubber-stamped by secret opinions from a court that meets in a faraday cage. The Electronic Frontier...
