[ExI] The NSA's new data center

[Stefano Vaj]

On 26 March 2012 14:54, Anders Sandberg <anders at aleph.se> wrote:

> That said, I do not believe in technological determinism. Societies (and
> elites) can decide they do not want to have ubiqitious surveillance and
> take steps to prevent it.
>

Yes, but it is going to be an arm race, and measures to prevent
surveillance are going to become ever more complicate and expensive. This
is why I expect the pendulum to swing back to the "normal" state of things
where in human societies privacy is the exception, not the rule.

In the meantime, I welcome the spreading of a security culture but not the
enactment of privacy regulations which only increase informational
asymmetries and social control in favour of governments in place.

-- 
Stefano Vaj
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