Zach Weissmueller, Reason: Silicon Valley firms are building surveillance and profiling tools to help government agents make sense of the massive amount of information available on social media and in publicly accessible data sets.
Are they using cutting-edge technologies to keep Americans safe, or laying the groundwork for a police state?
Edward Hasbrouck of the nonprofit Identity Project says this technology enables the government to violate civil liberties without necessary checks on its power. He compares it to the Berlin Wall.
"By building checkpoints -- by building the control mechanisms," Hasbrouck says, "we're already putting into place the infrastructure for those who will abuse them in the future."
http://reason.com/blog/2017/11/10/is-silicon-valley-building-the-infrastru
Are they using cutting-edge technologies to keep Americans safe, or laying the groundwork for a police state?
Edward Hasbrouck of the nonprofit Identity Project says this technology enables the government to violate civil liberties without necessary checks on its power. He compares it to the Berlin Wall.
"By building checkpoints -- by building the control mechanisms," Hasbrouck says, "we're already putting into place the infrastructure for those who will abuse them in the future."
http://reason.com/blog/2017/11/10/is-silicon-valley-building-the-infrastru
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