Originally shared by Miguel Afonso Caetano"Remember that Edward Snowden didn’t work for the NSA: he was a contractor for Booz Allen Hamilton, a company that turned over $5.48bn in 2014. Every new expansion of NSA mass surveillance means potential new contracts for Booz Allen Hamilton.
In other words: spying on everyone may not catch terrorists, but it does make military contractors and telcos a lot of money. Mass surveillance is policy with a business model.
We live in a post-evidence-based-policy world. As Ben Goldacre’s latest collection documents, what governments say they want to do and what they actually do are bizarrely decoupled. Whether the strategic goal is catching terrorists, educating children, or improving health outcomes, the tactics that government deploys are only glancingly related to what the evidence suggests it should be doing."
In other words: spying on everyone may not catch terrorists, but it does make military contractors and telcos a lot of money. Mass surveillance is policy with a business model.
We live in a post-evidence-based-policy world. As Ben Goldacre’s latest collection documents, what governments say they want to do and what they actually do are bizarrely decoupled. Whether the strategic goal is catching terrorists, educating children, or improving health outcomes, the tactics that government deploys are only glancingly related to what the evidence suggests it should be doing."
No, ministers – more surveillance will not make us safer | Technology | The Guardian