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（プライバシーに焦点を当てたサービスに反対しない限り）インターネット上のあらゆる操作が追跡され、保存される時代に生きています。これは、現在または未来において、あなたにどのように影響するのでしょうか。データ収集に対抗しなければ何が起きるのでしょうか。今日の大量監視、さらにはそれが自由な社会にもたらす脅威に関する詳細をお読みください。

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Commercial mass surveillance

The tech giants know everything about you – whether or not you use their services.

The business model

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.

Part 1: Big tech – they’ve collected so much data about you that they’ve lost control.

The actors behind the data collection

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.

Part 2: Data brokers – You've never even heard of them. They know almost everything about you.

The actors behind the data collection

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.

How the commercial mass surveillance companies collect your data and map your life.

The technology behind the data collection

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.

Organizations that collect data often claim it’s anonymous. Research shows this is impossible.

The collected data can’t be kept anonymous

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.

State mass surveillance

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?

Going Dark: US と EU 間の不透明な連携を通じた暗号化戦争の始まり

「子供たちのことを考えろ（Think of the children）」のスローガンの下、欧州委員会は EU 市民全員の完全な監視を導入しようとしました。スキャンダルが明るみに出ると、この法案（一般に「チャットコントロール」として知られる）にはアメリカのテクノロジー企業とセキュリティサービスが関与していたこと、そしてこの法案全体がまったく別の利害関係者によって指揮されていたことが判明しました。さらに、次の試みが始まっています。「Going Dark」イニシアチブでは、新たな破壊兵器が投入されましたが、ヨーロッパのすべての携帯電話とコンピューターに国家スパイウェアをインストールするという野望に変わりはありません。

The consequences of mass surveillance

Monitoring your internet behavior has consequences – you may just not be seeing them yet.

How the collected data is used

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?

Both state and commercial mass surveillance risk transforming free democracies into surveillance states

How data collection threatens a free society

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.

To those of you with nothing to hide: One day you might have. Because you don’t make the rules.

大量監視の代償: 誰もが何かを隠し持つようになります。

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.