With due respect to all three of you, I think this thread misses the point I wanted to make. Maybe I didn't make it well enough.
I read what you're saying as "yeah, and in the future (or now) they'll be able to add even more stuff." I agree with that premise but I see it as a quantitative change, not a fundamental reality-shift. To be honest I don't care what data are in the database as much as I care about the assumption that I will always be catalogued.
You might further make the argument that in the near future any individual will be able to nsa (there, I just made it a verb) another person in the way that the NSA are nsa-ing us now. I'd also agree with that, but point out that part of what makes this a phase change is not that it's done to a person or even a group of persons (c.f. cointelpro) but that it's done to everyone. Unless you want to argue that individuals will be able to access the reach and resources of a national government in the near future (possible) it's unlikely that anyone would nsa everyone, barring some billionaire mad-genius scenario.
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Date: 2013-08-21 06:15 pm (UTC)I read what you're saying as "yeah, and in the future (or now) they'll be able to add even more stuff." I agree with that premise but I see it as a quantitative change, not a fundamental reality-shift. To be honest I don't care what data are in the database as much as I care about the assumption that I will always be catalogued.
You might further make the argument that in the near future any individual will be able to nsa (there, I just made it a verb) another person in the way that the NSA are nsa-ing us now. I'd also agree with that, but point out that part of what makes this a phase change is not that it's done to a person or even a group of persons (c.f. cointelpro) but that it's done to everyone. Unless you want to argue that individuals will be able to access the reach and resources of a national government in the near future (possible) it's unlikely that anyone would nsa everyone, barring some billionaire mad-genius scenario.