Posts Tagged: NSA

Astrid Mager – Is Small Beautiful? Big Search and its Alternatives

By martaburugorri, November 11, 2013

Short interview with Astrid Mager from network cultures on Vimeo. In the first session Astrid Mager tells us about search engines, pointing out that Google is not the only search engine that is using personal data for commercial interests, or for instance, collaborating with the NSA. She holds that we shouldn’t blame only Google as there are many other [...]

Siva Vaidhyanathan on the Intimate Relationship Between State Surveillance and Corporate Dataveillance

By katia, November 10, 2013

Short interview with Siva Vaidhyanathan from network cultures on Vimeo. Society of the Query #2 kicks off with a mind-boggling presentation by Siva Vaidhyanathan, author of The Googlization of Everything. With the steady revelations throughout the summer of 2013 about the United States government’s programs and powers to monitor digital communication, mine metadata, and circumvent [...]