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posted by Dopefish on Saturday February 15 2014, @03:25AM   Printer-friendly
from the the-nsa-is-watching-you dept.

sgleysti writes: "In an article titled, "Is the Internet good or bad? Yes.", Zeynep Tufekci explores the true powers of internet surveillance for corporations and governments, using the Gezi Park protests in Turkey as a foil. He explains how the well-known scenarios of 1984 and the Panopticon fail to imagine a powerful and salient use of Big Data in modern democratic societies: the ability to persuade individuals through personally-tailored messages that no-one else hears. He considers how this is far more subtle and compelling than traditional mass media and explores the irony that the internet which has enabled grass-roots protests worldwide also grants powerful entities a new means of influencing large segments of the population."

 
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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by sgleysti on Saturday February 15 2014, @10:08AM

    by sgleysti (56) on Saturday February 15 2014, @10:08AM (#154)

    "it's like selling your soul to beta."

    Somehow, that seems worse.

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