| Sean Cubitt on Tue, 26 Jun 2001 03:04:35 +0200 (CEST) |
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| Re: <nettime> Echelon exists. Now it's official! |
> >Echelon computers can store millions of records on individuals, >intercepting faxes, phone calls, and emails. The report was prompted by >claims that the US and other nations was using Echelon to spy on European companies on behalf of American firms. Excellent. Privacy -- in any case a privilege of a small minority of the European middle classes for a brief perod of a hundred and fifty years -- is now over. The Private Self is no longer a political category. What is even more remarkable is that Echelon no longer respects private property. The private individual was never an essential element of capitalism. Now we learn that capital does not need private intellectual property either. Nettimers should welcome and encourage the development of such progressive technologies. sean -- Sean Cubitt Screen and Media Studies, Akoranga Whakaata P�rongo University of Waikato, Private Bag 3105, Hamilton, New Zealand T: Dept: +64 (0)7 838 4543 T: Direct: +64 (0)7 856 2289 ext 8604 F: +64 (0)7 838 4767 http://www.waikato.ac.nz/film http://www.ucl.ac.uk/slade/digita http://www.dundee.ac.uk/people/sean/welcome.html # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [email protected] and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected]