{"id":45096,"date":"2014-03-07T13:08:28","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T11:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=45096"},"modified":"2014-03-07T13:08:28","modified_gmt":"2014-03-07T11:08:28","slug":"government-surveillance-this-is-just-the-beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=45096","title":{"rendered":"Government surveillance \u2014 this is just the beginning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/embed.ted.com\/talks\/christopher_soghoian_government_surveillance_this_is_just_the_beginning.html\" width=\"520\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nPrivacy researcher Christopher Soghoian sees the landscape of government surveillance shifting beneath our feet, as an industry grows to support monitoring programs. Through private companies, he says, governments are buying technology with the capacity to break into computers, steal documents and monitor activity \u2014 without detection. This TED Fellow gives an unsettling look at what&#8217;s to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Privacy researcher Christopher Soghoian sees the landscape of government surveillance shifting beneath our feet, as an industry grows to support monitoring programs. Through private companies, he says, governments are buying technology with the capacity to break into computers, steal documents and monitor activity \u2014 without detection. This TED Fellow gives an unsettling look at what&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-presentations"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":150992,"url":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=150992","url_meta":{"origin":45096,"position":0},"title":"OpenAI Face Mass Boycott After Granting The Government AI-Driven Mass Surveillance&#8230;","author":"thebrainbehind","date":"04\/03\/2026","format":false,"excerpt":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/_lCYKEJVb9U?si=uWhG4EnB5BMotLPV","rel":"","context":"In &quot;videos&quot;","block_context":{"text":"videos","link":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?cat=193"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thecuriousbrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/openai-face-mass-boycott-after-g.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thecuriousbrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/openai-face-mass-boycott-after-g.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thecuriousbrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/openai-face-mass-boycott-after-g.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thecuriousbrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/openai-face-mass-boycott-after-g.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thecuriousbrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/openai-face-mass-boycott-after-g.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":117780,"url":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=117780","url_meta":{"origin":45096,"position":1},"title":"Database &#8211; a public installation on the subject of surveillance","author":"thebrainbehind","date":"15\/04\/2015","format":false,"excerpt":"The art project \u00bbDatabase\u00ab is a public installation on the subject of surveillance. 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