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Germans Compare Stasi To NSA By Data Volume, Guess Who Wins?

Via boingboing:

http://apps.opendatacity.de/stasi-vs-nsa/english.html
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Malte Spitz Sues For Cellphone Metadata

Pioneering The Brave New World Of Constant Recording

 

The Overly Documented Life   

By A.J. Jacobs

"My brain is now wired to cameras and monitors of every kind. My limited attention span, laughable subjectivity, and weak memory have been replaced by eyes that see everything and hard drives that never forget. Fun. "

"...You've heard of Google Goggles? In 2013, Google plans to release Internet-enabled glasses that, the company boasts, have the capacity to display data on the lenses and also to record every moment (including, presumably, those moments when you get beat up for wearing Internet-enabled goggles). Very spooky. But then Bell and a handful of followers have already been doing that for years."

http://www.esquire.com/features/overly-documented-life-0113 

Pentagon Bracing For Public Dissent Over Climate And Energy Shocks

Via Earth Insight by Nafeez Ahmed hosted by The Guardian:

The Pentagon knows that environmental, economic and other crises could provoke widespread public anger toward government and corporations in coming years. The revelations on the NSA's global surveillance programmes are just the latest indication that as business as usual creates instability at home and abroad, and as disillusionment with the status quo escalates, Western publics are being increasingly viewed as potential enemies that must be policed by the state.   [Keep Reading]

The Gaurdian Covers Predictive Programming

Via Alternet:

 

The Guardian / By John Patterson

 

Did Hollywood Help Make NSA Surveillance Permissible? 
Movies have got us used to the sight of people as pixellated quarry, tracked by powerful technology.

 

 

Last week's NSA leaks scandal had one scary side-story: a poll determining that a slim but clear majority of Americans weren't worried in the least about the 360-degree, all-platform access that the eavesdropping agency apparently now has to their phone, internet and wireless communications. Orwell's telescreen is part of our accepted digital furniture now, it seems, and Big Brother is regarded as a gentle protector rather than an iron-fisted tormentor even as sales of Nineteen Eighty-Four skyrocket on Amazon. And "precrime", a sci-fi concept of considerable vintage, is now a real thing, apparently. Another good reason that the representative fictional American citizen of our broken times is the zombie. Keep Reading.

James Corbett On Bilderberg, AP Records Seizure