How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism (2020)

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17 pointscolinprince4 comments

How about the surveillance security state that illegally watches over all our moves. I don’t care as much about annoying diaper ads as the way the government illegally snoops into our lives as Snowden exposed.

The two are related. NSA's PRISM[1] program that Snowden uncovered relied on data collected by the big surveillance capitalism companies:

"The documents identified several technology companies as participants in the PRISM program, including Microsoft in 2007, Yahoo! in 2008, Google in 2009, Facebook in 2009, Paltalk in 2009, YouTube in 2010, AOL in 2011, Skype in 2011 and Apple in 2012."[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)#M...

It's funny that for MS it coincides with the telemetry activation.

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