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Surveillance Valley The Secret Military History of the Internet
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03.01.2019
Featured as a Guardian Long Read in December 2018
EVERYTHING WE HAVE BEEN TOLD ABOUT THE DEMOCRATIC NATURE OF THE INTERNET IS A MARKETING PLOY.
As the Cambridge Analytica scandal has shown, private corporations consider it their right to use our data (and by extension, us) which ever way they see fit. Tempted by their appealing organisational and diagnostic tools, we have allowed private internet corporations access to the most intimate corners of our lives.
But the internet was developed, from the outset, as a weapon.
Looking at the hidden origins of many internet corporations and platforms, Levine shows that this is a function, not a bug of the online experience.
Conceived as a surveillance tool by ARPA to control insurgents in the Vietnam War, the internet is now essential to our lives. This book investigates the troubling and unavoidable truth of its history and the unfathomable power of the corporations who now more or less own it.
Without this book, your picture of contemporary society will be missing an essential piece of the puzzle.
EVERYTHING WE HAVE BEEN TOLD ABOUT THE DEMOCRATIC NATURE OF THE INTERNET IS A MARKETING PLOY.
As the Cambridge Analytica scandal has shown, private corporations consider it their right to use our data (and by extension, us) which ever way they see fit. Tempted by their appealing organisational and diagnostic tools, we have allowed private internet corporations access to the most intimate corners of our lives.
But the internet was developed, from the outset, as a weapon.
Looking at the hidden origins of many internet corporations and platforms, Levine shows that this is a function, not a bug of the online experience.
Conceived as a surveillance tool by ARPA to control insurgents in the Vietnam War, the internet is now essential to our lives. This book investigates the troubling and unavoidable truth of its history and the unfathomable power of the corporations who now more or less own it.
Without this book, your picture of contemporary society will be missing an essential piece of the puzzle.
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A critical look at the creation of the Internet and the later developments
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This book is a critical view of both the early phases of what we now know as the internet as well as current state as it has developed during the last 3 decades. His point about the early origin is that all the key proponents of the development always where also strongly active regarding Counter Insurgency activities. In their view, a key target of all these developments should collecting as much data as possible about basically everybody in the world. The beginnings were crude, mainly based on punch cards, but from the very first start, a key goal was to make the data that was collected doing counter insurgency programs available to all the relevant US-agencies. Data considered relevant for this included from the start everything about the US population and everybody else who might develop into a threat for the US.
After the privatization of the network in the 90s and the development of the surveyance business modell in the early 2000 the data collection was mainly left to the big internet companies. As the Snowden revelations should, the US government organisations were content with siphoning the data collected by the big businesses. The book also discusses the appearant contradictions that while fighting encryption schemes, the US goverment at the same time supports developments like TOR and Signal messaging. It also shows that although Snowden and others are targetted by US institutions, the same people are also indirectly supporting some of the US activities by promoting those tools like TOR and Signal.
The book also discusses the challenges that come from the widespread libertarian view of the internet that is sometimes hindering a critical view of the surveyance activites by the big internet companies.