More than 1,000 phone numbers in India were among nearly 50,000 selected worldwide as possibly of interest to clients of the Israel-based NSO Group, maker of the Pegasus spyware. — AFP
“... Everybody feels that he is being observed by everybody and he observes everybody; a modern man is a man being watched, a state watches him using more and more sophisticated techniques, a man tries as much as he can to avoid observation; a man to a state and a state to a man are becoming increasingly suspicious, similarly every state watches the others and feels that it is being watched by every other state.” — Friedrich Dürrenmatt
THE peril of living in a connected, networked world is now far too evident in the proliferation of the CCTV cameras, millimeter-wave scanners, security agency databases, big data marketers, predator drones, “stop and frisk” tactics, Facebook algorithms, hidden spyware, which in happier times was limited only to nosy neighbours and was manifested in the wider anonymity of things.
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