Daily surveillance of the general public conducted by the search engine, along with Facebook, is far more insidious than anything our spooks get up to
How Google Discovered the Value of Surveillance | Hacker News
It took basically until now for the bloom to come off the rose. Think about that. For 20 years Google has been supposedly hiring the smartest guys in the room and all it took was free food, some ball pits and slides, contributing some tech to open source, and working on a handful of "moonshots" that haven't gone anywhere to keep the sheen of innovation going. And it worked. For 20 years.
Former Facebook executive says Google, Facebook are 'surveillance states' and risk more regulation
Chamath Palihapitiya's holding company, which also includes former Twitter executive Adam Bain, hit the public markets on Thursday.
UK spies using social media data for mass surveillance | TechCrunch
Privacy rights group Privacy International says it has obtained evidence for the first time that UK spy agencies are collecting social media information on potentially millions of people.
Government Surveillance and Internet Search Behavior
This paper displays data from the US and its top 40 trading partners on the search volume of select keywords from before and after the surveillance revelations
A Surveillance Net Blankets China’s Cities, Giving Police Vast Powers (Published 2019)
The authorities can scan your phones, track your face and find out when you leave your home. One of the world’s biggest spying networks is aimed at regular people, and nobody can stop it.
Opinion | Peter Thiel: The Online Privacy Debate Won’t End With Gawker (Published 2016)
Journalists have nothing to fear from my campaign against the website.
Why you should bet big on privacy | TechCrunch
Ever felt like you were being watched online? You know, like when you read something about New York, and the next site you visit shows you ads for New York hotels? As it turns out, on my computer, there were more than 130 companies tracking my every move. These companies are basically engaging in mass surveillance.
Who Has More of Your Personal Data Than Facebook? Try Google
Google’s data-gathering empire is bigger and more pervasive than Facebook’s—and while it hasn’t been plagued by scandal, it can’t evade scrutiny forever.
Shoshana Zuboff: Secrets of Surveillance Capitalism
Governmental control is nothing compared to what Google is up to. The company is creating a wholly new genus of capitalism, a systemic coherent new logic of accumulation we should call surveillance capitalism. Is there nothing we can do?surveillance capitalism
Shoshana Zuboff: Secrets of Surveillance Capitalism
Governmental control is nothing compared to what Google is up to. The company is creating a wholly new genus of capitalism, a systemic coherent new logic of accumulation we should call surveillance capitalism. Is there nothing we can do?surveillance capitalism
The post-search Google era begins | The Vergecast
The Internet is a surveillance state | CNN
Bruce Schneier says our surveillance state is efficient beyond the wildest dreams of George Orwell, and consumers are given little chance to opt out
Cory Doctorow: Zuck’s Empire of Oily Rags
For 20 years, privacy advocates have been sounding the alarm about commercial online surveillance, the way that companies gather deep dossiers on us to help marketers target us with ads. This pitch…
Revealed: Google facilitated Russia and China’s censorship requests
An investigation has exposed the tech firm’s cooperation with autocratic regimes to remove unfavourable content
