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Your online behavior is the raw material from which one of the biggest economies in the history of the world has been built. But it isn’t the images you post, the comments you write or the messages you send that are the hard currency. It’s the data about the data that’s the true treasure. With what’s known as metadata, the tech giants aren’t satisfied with monitoring your life – they’ve decided to control it.

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You already know which big companies collect data for commercial purposes. But the question is whether you’re aware of the absurd extent of this data collection. You can take as long as you like to think about it, but the answer is still ‘No’. Not even the companies themselves know how much data they collect, where it goes and how they should control it.

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It's not just the tech giants that carry out commercial mass surveillance. There are companies working in the shadows, with a single purpose: to collect, buy and sell data about your online activities. And the lists they offer for sale don't make pleasant reading.

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The tech giants follow every step you take regardless of whether or not you use their services. But how does it actually work when they steal your behavior and place it in huge AI and machine learning systems to build a profile of you? Here are the methods behind the surveillance.

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When the tech giants collect huge quantities of data about your internet behavior, they always hide behind defenses such as ‘it’s only metadata’ or ‘we’ve anonymized the information’. But if you collect big data, it’s impossible to keep it anonymous. It’s enough for your phone to reveal four places you’ve been to work out that it’s you.

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Democratic and authoritarian countries are competing to see which of them can carry out mass surveillance most and best (worst).

USA and their friends in the surveillance alliance Fourteen Eyes have demonstrated that they have the capacity, the desire and the experience to monitor who they want, when they want, anywhere in the world. China and other totalitarian countries use mass surveillance to control their inhabitants. It often feels like a dystopian arms race is going on around the world. But who is actually the best (worst) at making George Orwell’s 1984 a reality?

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Going Dark: sota tietoliikenteen salausta vastaan ​​on tulilla Yhdysvaltojen ja EU:n hämärän yhteistyön seurauksena.

Euroopan komissio yritti jo ottaa käyttöön kaikkien EU:n kansalaisten totaalisen valvonnan "Ajatelkaa lapsia" -iskulauseen voimin. Kun käry kävi ja tämä skandaali tuli ilmi, selvisi samalla, että amerikkalaiset teknologiayritykset ja tietoturvaan keskittyvät palvelut olivat olleet osallisena tämän yleisesti nimellä Chat Control kulkevan lakiesityksen saattamisessa täytäntöön, ja että koko asiaa olivatkin ohjanneet täysin erilaiset intressit kuin huoli nuoremmista sukupolvista. Nyt saamme valmistautua seuraavaan yritykseen Going Dark -nimellä kulkevan lakialoitteen myötä, jonka tavoite on sama kuin edeltäjänsä: valtion vakoiluohjelmien asentaminen jokaiseen eurooppalaiseen matkapuhelimeen ja tietokoneeseen.

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Commercial and state mass surveillance collects absurd quantities of data about people all over the world. But what is all the data used for? When your internet behavior has been mapped, what might it lead to?

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Authoritarian states use mass surveillance to control the population. Even in democratic countries, we see direct consequences of collecting absurd amounts of data. But there are also less visible effects: both state and commercial mass surveillance show signs of being able to transform free societies into the complete opposite.

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The most common argument used in defense of mass surveillance is ‘If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear’. Try saying that to women in the US states where abortion has suddenly become illegal. Say it to investigative journalists in authoritarian countries. Saying ‘I have nothing to hide’ means you stop caring about anyone fighting for their freedom. And one day, you might be one of them.

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