Journeyman Pictures' short documentary "Naked Citizens" is an absolutely terrifying and amazing must-see glimpse of the modern security state, and the ways in which it automatically ascribes guilt to people based on algorithmic inferences, and, having done so, conducts such far-reaching surveillance into its victims' lives that the lack of anything incriminating is treated of proof of being a criminal mastermind:
"I woke up to pounding on my door", says Andrej Holm, a sociologist from the Humboldt University. In what felt like a scene from a movie, he was taken from his Berlin home by armed men after a systematic monitoring of his academic research deemed him the probable leader of a militant group. After 30 days in solitary confinement, he was released without charges. Across Western Europe and the USA, surveillance of civilians has become a major business. With one camera for every 14 people in London and drones being used by police to track individuals, the threat of living in a Big Brother state is becoming a reality. At an annual conference of hackers, keynote speaker Jacob Appelbaum asserts, "to be free of suspicion is the most important right to be truly free". But with most people having a limited understanding of this world of cyber surveillance and how to protect ourselves, are our basic freedoms already being lost?
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L0ckysays..."One of the world's leading scientists behind the development of smart cameras is Professor James Orwell."
You couldn't make that up.
chingalerasays...Indeed, the inescapable irony.
These tactics are time-honored, cameras and tech simply gives them new tools:
These thugs still use covert operations, undercover agents, and perlustration (now made simple with facebook/twitter/etc) and agent provocateurs.
How 'bout we all call this techy cunt being used by these other cunts and let him know how much safer the world is for the assholes in charge now that Billy is working for the secret police??.....MEH!-"Crowd-sourced policing": A euphemism for creating a police state, one-citizen-at-a-time.
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"One of the world's leading scientists behind the development of smart cameras is Professor James Orwell."
You couldn't make that up.
lurgeesays...*quality
siftbotsays...Boosting this quality contribution up in the Hot Listing - declared quality by lurgee.
Fletchsays..."Terrorist" is a magic word that can placate citizens when privacy and civil liberties are encroached.
chingalerasays...You rang??
"Terrorist" is a magic word that can placate citizens when privacy and civil liberties are encroached.
Sniper007says...Quick, get Jack Bauer to rape some woman and murder a few presidents to stop the terrorists!
bobknight33says...Time to start selling burka on ebay with
FUCK THE FED..
Privacy is mine..
Turn the camera off and I'll take by burka off...
printed on them.
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