Deleting Democracy: Australia and the surveillance juggernaut

 

Author: Zac Rogers

The digital age means we increasingly carry out the minutia of our daily lives in a type of hyper-Benthian attention harvesting behavioural modification Panopticon.  Google Inc, whose search engine has its origins in military funding, invented the business model and was quickly followed by a litany of emulators – Facebook and the social media brigade, Amazon which dominates cloud-computing – and an endless procession of start-ups for whom data-capture, in all facets of human behaviour is the core around which entire businesses are built.

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Dr Zac Rogers is a lead researcher at the Jeff Bleich Centre for the US Alliance in Digital Technology, Security and Governance (JBC).

The views expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the position of the Australian Army, the Department of Defence or the Australian Government.

 

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