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Surveillance Gap

While "normalized under crime & counterterrorism rationals," mass surveillance is a necessary component of the National Socialist planned economics. Is the U.S. falling behind Russia & China in surveillance technologies? ---- "Companies now regularly collect, aggregate, buy, and sell consumer data on virtually every aspect of people’s lives, including buying preferences, health status, criminal and voting histories, and physical whereabouts. For the modern citizen, this level of surveillance can be a form of control; large-scale data sharing between different levels of government and private industry blurs public/private distinctions. Watching plays a social sorting function, personal information, resulting in combined profiles used to regulate access to social services, education, health care, driver’s licenses, employment, housing, and transportation. Few—except those living purposely “off the grid”—are able to evade government or private-sector surveillance. People resist surveillance systems in subtle and empowering ways, quietly reclaiming their humanity and asserting their rights. Fear of the government’s abuse of these tools has prompted some mistrust and seems likely to cre

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