<div dir="ltr"><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/digital-authoritarianism-how-technology-designed-to-empower-us-was-seized-by-autocrats-1.5797135">https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/digital-authoritarianism-how-technology-designed-to-empower-us-was-seized-by-autocrats-1.5797135</a><br><div><br></div><div>Brief excerpt:</div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:16px">Nearly a decade after what had been called "Twitter revolution," we find ourselves in Big Brother territory, says Glenny, remarking at the extraordinary speed with which </span><a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/06/actually-most-countries-are-increasingly-spying-on-their-citizens-the-un-says/276614/" target="_blank" style="border-bottom:1px solid rgb(216,216,216);color:rgb(5,80,200);text-decoration-line:none;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:16px">intelligence agencies and militaries in particular have appropriated these tools</a><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:16px">. "Now most countries are using data from their citizens to monitor, to see what they're up to."</span><br></div><div><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:16px">While such Orwellian envisioning was long seen as futuristic, "we're now moving into a technological environment where the complete surveillance of all citizens, of all populace, of all people, and of all things is increasingly possible," says Daniel Deudney, a professor of political science and international relations at Johns Hopkins University.</span><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:16px">-------------------------------</span></div><div><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif">Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett</span></div></div>