alt Hacker NewsI don’t think 1st century Rome had much in the way of digital surveillance.
Or even surveillance, for that matter.
Plenty of hubris, mind.
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HiPhish • last Monday at 10:31 PM
The implementation might change, but the pattern of absolute control is old as time.
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arethuza • last Tuesday at 8:00 AM
Won't they have monitored their slaves quite closely?
Rome had the "frumentarii", which was essentially a proto intelligence agency to do spywork for emperors.