The Stasi could only dream of Big Tech’s capabilities. A comparison between analog and digital surveillance.
Stasi 2.0: How Big Tech Creates Perfect Surveillance
The Stasi could only dream of Big Tech’s capabilities. A comparison between analog and digital surveillance.
You wake up, check your smartphone, drive to work, buy coffee with a card, work on the computer, stream Netflix in the evening. A normal day? No. A day under total surveillance. Every day, over 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are collected about us – and most people don’t even notice.
Welcome to the digital panopticon of the 21st century, where surveillance has become invisible and control is sold as service.