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bobimtoday at 10:32 AM3 repliesview on HN

Brazil was so right. We're just an inference away from being jailed. I'm not from UK but it shows how we are all helpless and see in plain conciousness what is coming. When did we lost the grip?


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coldteatoday at 10:39 AM

Note to readers: Brazil the Terry Gilliam Kafkaesque movie, not the country.

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Nursietoday at 11:00 AM

Brazil was also right about the levels of competence within the bureaucracy.

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doublerabbittoday at 10:38 AM

The 1960's was about the time in history when investment went in to surveillance programs.

Computer recognition has been around for a very long time, and has always been on the edge for spying on citizens.

It's accelerated now because we have future technology that they didn't have back then.

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