Simon Willmetts
@swillmetts.bsky.social
Cultural historian with an interest in secrecy, intelligence agencies, and their impact upon wider culture and society. I work at Leiden University, but my views here are my own.
Thanks! I like your podcast!
March 15, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Thanks! I like your podcast!
But isn’t this an increasingly outdated way of understanding how intelligence services make sense of the data they collect? Do androids dream of electronic intelligence targets, and if they do, how does this change our understanding of privacy and surveillance in a digital age?
February 11, 2025 at 3:57 PM
But isn’t this an increasingly outdated way of understanding how intelligence services make sense of the data they collect? Do androids dream of electronic intelligence targets, and if they do, how does this change our understanding of privacy and surveillance in a digital age?
In the wake of the Snowden affair intelligence services often defended bulk data collection by arguing, essentially, that although they store a bunch of data, most of it isn’t looked at by humans, and therefore no privacy violations have taken place.
February 11, 2025 at 3:57 PM
In the wake of the Snowden affair intelligence services often defended bulk data collection by arguing, essentially, that although they store a bunch of data, most of it isn’t looked at by humans, and therefore no privacy violations have taken place.