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Domestic Surveillance

Not only Big Brother but Big Corporation is Tracking you Online Too

Juan Cole 02/23/2014

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(Via Techdirt)

What Happens When You Marry The NSA’s Surveillance Database With Amazon’s Personalized Marketing? (via Techdirt)

By now, most people who shop online are aware of the way in which companies try to tailor their offers based on your previous purchasing and browsing history. Being followed by strangely relevant ads everywhere is bad enough, but what if the government…

 

Zeynep Tufekci blogs at Technosociology

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Related video:

The New America Foundation this week presented a panel on “The Ever-Falling Cost of Surveillance” , including prominent journalists covering this beat.

Blurb: “The Ever-Falling Cost of Surveillance:
How You Can Be Tracked for Just Pennies a Day, and What It Means for The Future of Privacy”

Filed Under: Domestic Surveillance, Government surveillance, Human Rights, Internet, media

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page

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