Spy Society

["Ralf Stephan" <ralf@ark.in-berlin.de>]

Eine Sammlung von drei Artikeln mit vielen Details über die
US-amerikanische Überwachungsgesellschaft:

http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/9840/boal.shtml
  (The Village Voice: Features: Spycam City)

   It's impossible to say how many lenses are trained on
   the streets of New York, but in one eight-block radius, the NYCLU
   found over 300 in plain sight. And as one volunteer acknowledges,
   "There are tons of hidden cameras we didn't catch."

http://www.villagevoice.com/features/9849/boal.shtml
  (Spycam Chic)

   But as we shed the distinction between an on- and off-camera
   personality, there's little reason to be unsettled by the video gaze.
   If anything, the real fear for many people is of a life never graced
   by the validating lens.
 
http://www.villagevoice.com/features/9850/boal.shtml
  (Spy Commerce)

   Demographics the old standard of selling to the masses is being
   replaced by a more precise schematic, in which people are classified
   according to their personality profiles. On Madison Avenue, this
   strategy is called "psychographics."
 

ralf
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