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| | Part two of 'The End of Ordinary Money' by economist J. Orlin Grabbe. Explore money laundering, electronic cash, cryptological anonymity, and the impact of surveillance and government policy on privacy and finance.
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| | Back in June, when the contents of Edward Snowden's cache of NSA documents were just starting to be revealed and we learned about the NSA collecting phone metadata of every American, many people-including President Obama-discounted the seriousness of the NSA's actions by saying that it's just metadata. Lots and lots of people effectively demolished that trivialization, but the arguments are generally subtle and hard to convey quickly and simply. I have a more compact argument: metadata equals surveillance. Imagine you hired a detective to eavesdrop on someone. He might plant a bug in their office. He might tap their phone. He might open their mail. The result would be the details of that person's communications. That's the "data."...
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| | I believe it was in 1999 that Scott McNealy famously said "privacy is dead, get over it". It is a whole lot deader now than it was then. A m...
| | www.raceforward.org
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