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The Greatest Trick Big Brother Ever Pulled<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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\u201cThe greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn\u2019t exist\u201d is a quote generally attributed to Charles Baudelaire \u2013 or possibly Keyser S\u00f6ze depending on who you ask on the internet. Something similar can be said about Big Brother.<\/p>\n

When you think about what our emerging surveillance state will look like, you think\u00a01984<\/em><\/a>. You imagine East Germany powered by Google and Amazon. You recall your favorite dystopian sci-fi film \u2013 or maybe horror stories of China\u2019s social credit system. Thoughts of a frustrated middle-aged police chief from a mid-sized Midwestern town attempting to procure security cameras with innovative new features probably don\u2019t come to mind. You definitely don\u2019t think of a guy in a lawn chair jotting down the license plate numbers of passing vehicles in a notebook. And that\u2019s partly how the surveillance state is going to emerge as it creeps its way into one small town at a time.<\/p>\n

Whether a surveillance state is the end goal is hard to say. The police chief of Pawnee, Indiana probably isn\u2019t plotting the development of his own mini-Oceania. But, 18,000-plus mini-Oceanias operating across multiple platforms with varying degrees of integration, both locally and nationally, is undoubtedly the direction in which we are heading as salespeople peddle shiny new surveillance gadgets to cities big and small, making often unverified but intuitively appealing claims of how their devices will decrease crime or prove to be useful investigative tools.<\/p>\n

Facial recognition<\/a> tends to be the surveillance gadget that receives the most attention these days. You\u2019ve seen it in movies and maybe feel some unease over visions of government agents sitting in a penumbrous room illuminated only by the faint glow of countless monitors with little boxes tracking the faces of every person walking down a busy city street…<\/p>\n

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The Greatest Trick Big Brother Ever Pulled \u201cThe greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn\u2019t exist\u201d is a quote generally attributed to Charles Baudelaire \u2013 or possibly Keyser S\u00f6ze depending on who you ask on the internet. Something similar can be said about Big Brother. When you think about what […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1212,2472,34114,30506,5570,4622,32732],"class_list":["post-66795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-1212","tag-big-brother","tag-daniel-nuccio","tag-facial-recognition-software","tag-mass-surveillance","tag-surveillance-state","tag-the-brownstone-institute"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66796,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66795\/revisions\/66796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}