Surveillance State

I recently read Surveillance Valley and it blew my mind. Even the dark web is sponsored by the US government, where they both develop it and try to crack it at the same time.-- "bookofthoth_za", 2 Oct 2019A surveillance state is a state that does (mass) surveillance. In East Germany, the citizen-informants included doctors, lawyers, journalists, sports-figures, writers, actors, high officials in religious organizations, pastors, waiters, hotel personnel, and other workers. “Schools, universities, and hospitals were infiltrated from top to bottom,” wrote John Koehler, author of Stasi: The Untold Story of the East German Secret Police. Markus Wolf, a former Stasi officer, said that, in Germany, TIs were gangstalked by citizen agents who “literally encircled their everyday movements.” (See Rich, 2008, op.cit.) The homes of these persons were “put under siege.” (Rich, p.105.) 
== Rhizomata ==
* Statecraft; Social Engineering; Soft totalitarianism; Security; Surveillance; Surveillance body; 
* Surveillance company; Social media surveillance 
* Industrial Complex; Intelligence; Data; Paranoid society (Paranoid community); Paranoia-influenced statecraft
* Paranoia-based decision making; Risk; Security; Counter-threat measures
Category:Government
Category:Security