BIG BROTHER MIGHT NOT BE WATCHING, BUT BIG TECH IS EVERYBODY IS THE CENTER OF ATTENTION
If your knowledge of surveillance and security issues came entirely from popular culture, you could be forgiven for assuming that Americans live in a dystopian world of ubiquitous monitoring. Movie and television screens are filled with ominous scenes that depict a near-future of Panopticon- level observation by sinister government agencies and nefarious corporations. The shadowy campiness of the 1990s-era television show The X-Files has given way to the panicky tones of Netflix’s Black Mirror , where episodes frequently feature a range of plausible surveillance technologies that relentlessly track people both inside and outside their homes.
54 March 2018
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