video on police surveillance of activists

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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.



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