>>877325
>In its current form, internet can still be browsed anonymously
How? Because Tor, for exemple, was not designed to resist to any traffic analysis attack, and so to any government surveillance.
The only way is to steal the internet connection of someone else, while being sure to be on a live distro.
>People whose data is sold currently is irrelevant to the day-to-day politics anyway
That's incredibly wrong. And I have exemple in my own country of how the Palantir tool have been used to dismantle a citizen group that have been forming, and that was seen as totaly irrelevant. People still bring out this "lol the nsa don't care about your porn". Actually, they do. They're simply not using their full capabilities YET, but if you want to have a better real world exemple of direct application, just look at china, and their recent facial recognition tech given to every chinese cop, that can give out who is who just with a pic.
Moreover, I'm saying that they're not using their capabilities, but we don't know about what happened to the people that are anonymous, since well, they're anon. I heard that in my country (no USA), there was coup attempts against the government and the president, that have been stopped, but it was hidden, to not give any idea to anyone.
So, for exemple, for a hacker that wants to actually do real nasty stuff against the government, you're not gonna hear anything about it. There is already people in the USA that are in prison for a very long time, for activism, but you'll never heard about them. I'm not talking about Snowden, that must certainly be an agent. You'll never heard about any direct opposition, and they're first gonna try to destroy them with money removal, taxe control etc... There is some exemple, but you have to be in the underground politics to know them.
When the director of CIA is saying that people are incredibly foreseeable, that's true. They don't really care about what you truly do: but if they build a real psychological profil of you, and know what is your network of people, then they'll know most of what they need.
Moreover, selling the data to ads companies is actually a blatant exemple of how surveillance is generalised and integrated everywhere. Ads is more of less a form of control, too.
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