Big Brother

The Hidden History of Big Brother in America How the Death of Privacy and the Rise of Surveillance Threaten Us and Our Democracy by Thom Hartmann (Oakland, CA: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., 2022) epub ISBN 9781523001040 ebook LCCN 2021034449 adobe pdf ISBN 9781523001033 paperback ISBN 9781523001026 print ISBN 2021031034448 ---- Part Three Big Brother and the Real Global Info wars On the Internet, maintaining privacy and security is important for individuals but vital for governments. p. 83 pp.84-88 ....Cyberwar is sort of the opposite of neutron bombs. ...it takes out the infrastructure with the goal being to disrupt society so severely as to bring down governments .... Conceivably, a nation's own nuclear arsenal could be used against it by programming nuclear bombs and missiles to explode in place. Multiple nations are today planning for exactly this kind of warfare scenario, and it's already been tried in more local ways,...... pp. 92-93 ...America now has a new Big Brother in Russia and probably China as well. Not to mention the Big Data companies that were more than happy to profit from making Trump president and then conceal from the American people exactly how their algorithms worked and what ads they allowed on their platforms. Shoshana Zuboff's The Age of Surveillance Capitalism pp.99-101 The Final Report by the NSCAI chaired by Eric Schmidt: "AI is deepening the threat posed by cyber attacks and dysinformation campaigns that Russia, China, and others are using to infiltrate our society, steal our data, and interfere in our democracy. The limited uses of AI-enabled attacks to date represent the tip of the iceberg."