<nettime> aclu: IoT

[John Hopkins <jhopkins@neoscenes.net>]

http://tinyurl.com/l5vcnp7 and
http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175822/

Finally somebody makes a public argument against the breathless Red Herring 
Utopian hype around IoT and its purported deep and beneficent innocence.

Back in the 90s, there was the same level of hype around the Web in general, and 
we got the NSA. Imagine what IoT will bring us. The ACLU makes a powerful 
argument to where we *don't* want to end up, given the level of technological 
sophistication and data agglomeration we, under this globalized techno-social 
regime, are converging on...

Cheers.
jh

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