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Byron Tau
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Means of Control: How the Hidden Alliance of Tech and Government Is Creating a New American Surveillance State
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2024
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3 editions
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Things That Don't Want to be Found
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“The former director of both the CIA and the NSA, Michael Hayden, put it even more bluntly in 2014: “We kill people based on metadata.”
― Means of Control: How the Hidden Alliance of Tech and Government Is Creating a New American Surveillance State
― Means of Control: How the Hidden Alliance of Tech and Government Is Creating a New American Surveillance State
“A few days later, a Defense Department lawyer knocked on the official’s door to ask if he had been talking up a commercial data-mining tool for base and facility security purposes. He acknowledged he had. “This is the DOD. We don’t do that shit,” the lawyer said, warning him to knock it off. That legal advice would, in the years to come, go largely unheeded.”
― Means of Control: How the Hidden Alliance of Tech and Government Is Creating a New American Surveillance State
― Means of Control: How the Hidden Alliance of Tech and Government Is Creating a New American Surveillance State
“In a widely read New York Times column published in November 2002, the conservative journalist William Safire blasted the program as an affront to civil liberties and a dangerous turn toward tyranny. In dire language, Safire warned that such a system would start to ingest every purchase, prescription, magazine subscription, bank deposit—even students’ grades. Safire dubbed it “the supersnoop’s dream”—an “Orwellian scenario” playing out in real time.”
― Means of Control: How the Hidden Alliance of Tech and Government Is Creating a New American Surveillance State
― Means of Control: How the Hidden Alliance of Tech and Government Is Creating a New American Surveillance State
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