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https://sub.media/video/trouble-5-you-are-being-watched/
Trouble # 5: You Are Being Watched
Movement Defense Against State & Corporate Surveillance
Ours is an age of historically unprecedented state and corporate
surveillance. Our society’s growing addiction to social media, smart
phones and other forms of digital communication has ushered in a more
interconnected society, but one that is almost entirely dependent on
the technological infrastructure of massive telecommunication,
software and IT corporations. The rise of surveillance capitalism has
also granted state intelligence networks like the NSA with an
unfathomably intimate snapshot into our personal lives. These days,
everything we do or say online is collected and stored in massive
server farms, accessible to intelligence analysts and state security
forces at any time of their choosing. These enhanced surveillance
capacities have, in turn, revolutionized more traditional methods of
gathering intelligence on political dissidents, by helping local and
federal police departments map out the networks they hope to
infiltrate, and identify prospective targets that are most vulnerable
to being flipped and/or coerced into betraying their supposed
comrades. Yet even with all these tools at their disposal, states
around the world are finding it harder and harder to control the
explosion of popular anger provoked by their increasingly severe
policies of ecological destruction and capitalist exploitation. In
this month’s episode of Trouble, anarchist media collective sub.Media
interviews a number of individuals about their experiences of dealing
with undercovers and informants, and looks at some of the ways that we
can build movements that are more resilient to state and corporate
surveillance.
https://sub.media/c/featured-content/
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