One recurring theme in conflicts throughout history is the struggle for power has always been the struggle for the benefit of the information. The group that had more and better information always rose to power. That's why the facade of spying on security justifying NSA is absurd -. It is, and always has been, on the unadultered pure power, and ground surveillance threatens democracy at a systemic level
It is difficult to say exactly when the information has become more and more equivalent with power, but we do know that the Romans intercepted couriers who carried messages, and that the Romans used a secret form of messaging tattoo a message on the shaved head of a slave and sending this slave as a messenger, once the hair has grown just enough to hide the presence of a message. This hints at a fairly advanced awareness of health information.
We also know that the Catholic Church was very aware of his privilege of interpretation. Since the Bible was in Latin, and only the priests were allowed to read the Bible (and knew Latin), they could dictate anything as true of the Bible as they liked. This was a huge advantage for the information; they could present their own interests than the public interest and hold completely unchallenged. This is a very good example of the historical advantage of information with a group that was also the undisputed power.
At the time when the Catholic Church reigned, you could be exiled to unauthorized reading Bible. The privilege of interpretation - maintaining the advantage of information - was it important
"Beware of those who want to deny access to information, in his heart, he dreams your master. ". - Commissioner Pravin Lal
When the press arrived, whole cartloads of Bibles would suddenly appear on the streets of Paris! - in French Church, with its advantage of information threat, convinced enact the fee death penalty for the book unauthorized copying (as in the use of a printing press at all). What happened in France, January 13, 1535.
This illustrates NSA / GCHQ / FRA today affairs of the mass wiretapping is not a new thought. It is aged at least 00 years. But its influence is even greater today, with access to huge amounts of information.
The old archives of the Stasi are exposed in a building in central Berlin, the Stasi Museum. It is a fairly large building. Most people have the mental image that the Stasi was the pinnacle of mass surveillance evil; nothing before or after it has been as thorough and any gathering.
There is an interesting display that compares the NSA to Stasi compared apples to apples. If the NSA used the same technology to store its information collected on ordinary citizens that the Stasi did, how much building area would raise his information, where the Stasi took a large building in Berlin?
Most people don 't realize the magnitude of what is happening right now. The answer is two buildings, four buildings, or block. It is not even a suburb or city. It is all of Europe and much of North Africa.
The reason this is important is because it leads to overthrow the government. In a democracy, we are supposed to be contemplating the problems of society as citizens, and vote for leaders who are better able to solve them at regular intervals. This concept requires - and this is important - that voters are sovereign in their individual decision . The individual vote is supposed to be a decision in a democracy that can never be questioned under any circumstances. Everything else is part of a checks and balances system; everything else is subject to individual vote.
What is the current mass surveillance does is reverse the whole pyramid of power. For the first time in a supposed democracy, elected leaders have the ability to hold them accountable to voters the decision on their vote. Or at least their private opinions leading up to the vote, which is the same thing in practice.
This is why the mass surveillance threatens democracy at a systemic level. "Fight against crime" or "national security" is far from being sufficient justification for it.
Your privacy is your power over creation. Just as the establishment takes responsibility to maintain its own power, your private life is your own responsibility.
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