Opinion | Facebook and the Surveillance Society : The Other Coup
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/29/opinion/sunday/facebook-surveillance-society-technology.html
We can have democracy, or we can have a surveillance society, but we cannot have both. Two decades ago, the American government left democracy’s front door open to California’s fledgling internet companies, a cozy fire lit in welcome. In the years that followed, a surveillance society flourished in those rooms, a social vision born in the distinct but reciprocal needs of public intelligence agencies and private internet companies, both spellbound by a dream of total information awareness. (...)
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