{"id":8429,"date":"2014-06-10T15:11:59","date_gmt":"2014-06-10T19:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/?p=8429"},"modified":"2014-06-10T15:11:59","modified_gmt":"2014-06-10T19:11:59","slug":"want-to-predict-the-future-of-surveillance-ask-poor-communities-american-prospect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2014\/06\/want-to-predict-the-future-of-surveillance-ask-poor-communities-american-prospect.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Want to Predict the Future of Surveillance? Ask Poor Communities&#8221;: American Prospect"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>piece:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Since Edward Snowden started disclosing millions of classified NSA documents in June, terms like metadata, software backdoors, and cybervulnerability have appeared regularly in headlines and sound bites. Many Americans were astonished when these stories broke. In blogs, comment sections, and op-ed pages, they expressed disbelief and outrage.<\/p>\n<p>But I wasn\u2019t surprised. A decade ago, I sat talking to a young mother on welfare about her experiences with technology. When our conversation turned to Electronic Benefit Transfer cards (EBT), Dorothy* said, \u201cThey\u2019re great. Except [Social Services] uses them as a tracking device.\u201d I must have looked shocked, because she explained that her caseworker routinely looked at her EBT purchase records. Poor women are the test subjects for surveillance technology, Dorothy told me ruefully, and you should pay attention to what happens to us. You\u2019re next.<\/p>\n<p>Poor and working-class Americans already live in the surveillance future. The revelations that are so scandalous to the middle-class data profiling, PRISM, tapped cellphones\u2013are old news to millions of low-income Americans, immigrants, and communities of color. To be smart about surveillance in the New Year, we must learn from the experiences of marginalized people in the U.S. and in developing countries the world over. Here are four lessons we might learn if we do.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/prospect.org\/article\/want-predict-future-surveillance-ask-poor-communities\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">more<\/a> (I am just a bundle of sunshine today! MORE TO FOLLOW, she threatened.)<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>piece: Since Edward Snowden started disclosing millions of classified NSA documents in June, terms like metadata, software backdoors, and cybervulnerability have appeared regularly in headlines and sound bites. Many Americans were astonished when these stories broke. In blogs, comment sections, and op-ed pages, they expressed disbelief and outrage. But I wasn\u2019t surprised. 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