Grease Rat: Like the sign says: "speed's just a question of money... how fast you wanna go" from the movie Mad Max
Nearly a month ago, I half joked that the most feared/effective domestic surveillance agency in the Communist world, the Stasi, would likely be reborn in the 21st Century as a private company. So OK. It wasn't much of a joke or a prediction. Spying is already being privatized on a global scale (much of it leveraging systems built for marketing companies).
Or in other words: Oppression is just a question of money. How much do you want?
On that note, here's an excellent interactive global map showing where private intelligence companies operate and the services they provide. From Internet/phone/SMS monitoring to GPS tracking, everything you do can be captured and displayed interactively on pricey Palantir (the display/interface of choice for domestic monitoring and surveillance) display.
(Click the graphic below to access it)
The important thing to take away from this: all of the great work people are doing to build private, encrypted networks t0 bypass this surveillance needs support. IF you don't need it now, you will later.
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