The Surveillance-Marketing Complex | Kevin Drum

By EmmaZahn on Fri, 06/21/2013 - 11:29am |

About the intersection of and revolving doors between private and public surveillance.

Here's a quote that should probably scare you:

"We are all in these Big Data business models."

Why scary? Because the "we" in this case is Silicon Valley and the American intelligence community. As James Risen and Nick Wingfield reported yesterday in the New York Times, the interests of tech companies and the NSA have been coverging over the past decade in two ways. The first way is fairly prosaic: lots of Silicon Valley companies are in the business of selling stuff to the NSA: storage hardware, sophisticated communications equipment, data analytics software, and more. But while this may have increased recently, it's not fundamentally new. It's just the latest high-tech twist on the good old military-industrial complex.

URL:

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/06/surveillance-marketing-complex-coming-soon-computer-near-you