>
> Contemporary forms of "surveillance" are built upon
> cheap data storage and ubiquitous computing. As you
> say Jordan, immediate 'investigation' has little to
> do
> with it; 'data harvesting' and 'data warehousing'
> for
> potential future use are the actual goals.
>
>
> This was the design assumption of the Total
> Information Awareness program (officially killed,
> but
> lingering in an undead state, its spirit scattered
> across various smaller efforts).
>
[WS:] That may be true, but there is always the human factor. All that information requires human processing and action, and the more people are involved, the gerater the chance that someone will blow the whistle, refuse to cooperate, or even sabotage the operation. Just like in the film _The Lives of Others."
http://www.sonyclassics.com/thelivesofothers/
Wojtek
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