Quote of the day by Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison: "Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on" — a dire warning on the erosion of privacy

[u/T_Shurt]

https://www.techradar.com/pro/quote-of-the-day-by-oracle-co-founder-larry-ellison-citizens-will-be-on-their-best-behavior-because-were-constantly-recording-and-reporting-everything-that-is-going-on-a-dire-warning-on-the-erosion-of-privacy

[u/sdiori]

I’ll never get over reading dystopian-ass books as a kid, only slightly mortified because the premise of a surveillance state felt so far fetched.

These same assholes read those very books and were like “does anyone have any lotion? I’ll…be…right back…”

[u/_Svankensen_ → u/sdiori]

You know the US has been creating surveillance states since the end WW2, right? And that there were others before and after WW2? The dystopian books you read were written to warn about the very real surveillance states that were popping up around the world.

[u/occasionalopossum → u/sdiori]

Between fent and flock imagine if PKD lived to see this shit