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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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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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?

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• Going Dark: 미국과 EU의 은밀한 협력을 통해, 암호화에 대한 전쟁이 물살을 타고 있습니다.

  2013년 스노든(Snowden)의 폭로 이후, 인터넷의 많은 부분이 암호화되어 비공개 보안 커뮤니케이션이 활성화되었습니다. 모두가 이러한 변화를 환영한 것은 아니었습니다. 특히 FBI와 미국 정부 기관에서는 종종 "암호화 전쟁(Crypto Wars)"이라고 불리는 암호화에 대한 전쟁을 벌였습니다. 최근에는 유럽 연합 집행 기관들도 합류했습니다. "아이들을 생각하라(What about the children)"는 구호 아래 이들은 모든 EU 시민에 대한 완전한 대규모 감시 체제를 도입하려고 시도합니다. 이러한 시도는 처음에는 채팅 감시 법안(Chat Control) 발의를 통해, 이후에는 "고잉 다크(Going Dark)"와 "프로텍트EU(ProtectEU)"를 통해 이루어졌습니다. 목표는 모든 유럽인의 스마트폰과 컴퓨터에 스파이 툴을 법적으로 의무화하는 것입니다. 이러한 노력을 주도하는 세력은 미국 기술 기업과 정보 기관인 것으로 밝혀졌습니다.

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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?

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• 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.

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

  대규모 감시의 결과: 우리 모두는 숨길 것이 있습니다.

  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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