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Surveillance valley by yasha levine
Surveillance valley by yasha levine












It also investigates and uncovers the close ties that exist between U.S. Surveillance Valley starts in the past, but moves into the present, looking at the private surveillance business that powers much of Silicon Valley and the overlap between the Internet and the military-industrial complex. Indeed, the dominant cultural view at the time was that computers were tools of repression, not liberation - and that included the ARPANET, the military research network that would grow into the Internet we use today. People worried that these systems were going to be used by both corporations and governments for surveillance and control. "Starting in the early 1960s, there was fear in America about the proliferation of computer database and networking technologies.














Surveillance valley by yasha levine