REDUX: "Big Data to Drive a Surveillance Society"

BTC - IBM is that nasty guy at the Info Bar who slips something into your beverage while you are distracted and then takes full advantage before you come to.  Guys like that believe, inherently, you want your non-consensual compromise as badly as they do.

"It [BIG DATA] will change our existing notions of privacy. A surveillance society is not only inevitable, it's worse. It's irresistible," said Jeff Jonas, a distinguished engineer with IBM. Jonas spoke to a packed house of several hundred people Wednesday at the Structure Big Data 2011 conference here.

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How predictable!  IBM, Verichip wundersponsor, can't help but love systemic numerical processing of people's information for cash!  Ahem ... excepting the deep privacy argument that information surveillance doesn't really happen- or even start- with bonafide informed consent, simply distracted consent.  Between TIME's coverage of the great data heist of 2011 and the Wall Street Journal's "What They Know" columns; Washington has been successfully cornered on the massive problem of unaccountable data brokerages and the information surveillance of millions of people.

Let's not forget what we are up against; an entire unchecked industry who -for lack of limits- has grown not only entitled, by years of unchecked precedent, but also super-rich.   A simple protest in NYC is not fixing this...

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