Privacy researcher Christopher Soghoian sees the landscape of government surveillance shifting beneath our feet, as an industry grows to support monitoring programs. Through private companies, he says, governments are buying technology with the capacity to break into computers, steal documents and monitor activity — without detection. This TED Fellow gives an unsettling look at what's to come.
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MetalFox
It’s just disgusting. Words can’t express how this makes me feel.
Name Again
Because you believed the lie you were told
Softboi
This is relevant to my interests.
AguzSuiCaedere
Is time to use messenger pigeons again!
Gabs Rants
everybody commenting here is using his google+ account.
Hagge Bänke
There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always— do not forget this, Winston— always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face— forever.
OKBH
informative without too much opinion from my observation. Thanks TED.
Jacob
This is very worrying… Oh hi government!
Michael McLoughlin
6:50 guy in the audience wearing Google Glass, oh the irony
MrSheepboy
@*****
They could have hacked into the glasses either coincidentally or otherwise and be watching them being spoken
about.. Kind of ironic imo..
Michael McLoughlin
Hehe, I initially didn’t reply because I figured ‘oh, another internet tough guy’, but you’re alright 😀
zzFishstick
@***** Freak.
holdmybeer
I put black tape on my webcam around 2007. My girlfriend thought I was paranoid.
Username
ow man, once i saw the title i knew i had to watch it
Mackle Palmeroy
I have never once been afraid of getting blow up by someone but I am in terror of the the United States Government and Police every day.
Anaudopseudopodepanaps
UNRESTRICTED SURVEILLANCE MEANS THE STAGNATION OF ALL FUTURE PROGRESS. The biggest problem with surveillance is that it will inhibit any future change for the better. Most of the great revolutionaries and people who made a change for the better would now be called terrorists. If 500 years ago the World had had the kind of surveillance we have today we would still have the Inquisition as a form of law and the people in power would be the same.
Nicolas de la Forge
The bastards have surrounded us: https://www.youtube.com/redirect?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FFirst-Account-Occupation-Meaning-Syndrome-ebook%2Fdp%2FB082RGVD8X%2Fref%3Dsr_1_1%3Fdchild%3D1%26keywords%3Dbooks%2Bby%2Bvigo%2Bbruun%26qid%3D1590256903%26s%3Ddigital-text%26sr%3D1-1&redir_token=K4tUZhofXMczlgNNEz92OFTqM7p8MTU5MDM0NDc4MUAxNTkwMjU4Mzgx&event=comments&stzid=Ugx5Bbzj1LXMQOEKWuJ4AaABAg
Mat Broomfield
Congratulations to these companies. You’ve killed the internet.
Artimis Fowl
TL;DR: Build your own OS, keep your computer off the web, and wear a tin foil hat.
Dan Holly
Great Speech
Atoyota
just the tip of the iceberg here
Michael Minkler
Clear and to the point. Well done
Netsanet Ashenafi
thank you sir! i think its high time for the public to wake up and speak up. technology is enslaving us!
egqa api
nicely put into words….
Vikas Vicraman
good one…. thanks….
Samus Grind
One the reazons why terrorism exists is to justify government shadowing and collection info. It’s not the main reazon, terrorist play many impotant roles as irregular army, where govs can’t act fully open.