Topic: Jacob Appelbaum & Dmytri Kleiner - Resisting The Surveillance (Read 435 times)

Interesting video...

Jacob Appelbaum & Dmytri Kleiner - Resisting The Surveillance State And Its Network Effects:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOiFgUj9bWI

"...The business model of social media is surveillance and behaviour control."

That is an interesting point and I guess that can be applied to Bitcoin as well. Some mentioned that Bitcoin can be seen also as a social movement.
The public transaction log is a heaven for data miners, even if its hard to track the addresses to individual users. As soon as big merchants (or other central points like exchanges) start using BTC they get an additional business model as well. They will know which address belongs to which real person and can follow a larger part of the tx graph to find a lot more about their users like they could do now with credit cards. A user buying a book at amazon (if they use btc some day) and with the tx graph amazon can follow that users shopping behaviour on many other areas. They could sell these data like facebook is making money of their social graphs and behaviour data.

Another interesting part in the video is when Dmytri says that we dont need a new p2p platform. We have had that platfrom from the very beginning. The internet itself was that platform. But somehow the capitalist market created huge central private gardens and people prefer these golden cages instead staying in their open public parcs.