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May 27, 2013 04:00 pm PDT
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Kafka, meet Orwell: peek behind the scenes of the modern surveillancestate
Journeyman Pictures' short documentary "Naked Citizens" is an absolutely terrifying and amazing must-see glimpse of the modern security state, and the ways in which it automatically ascribes guilt to people based on algorithmic inferences, and, having done so, conducts such far-reaching surveillance into its victims' lives that the lack of anything incriminating is treated of proof of being a criminal mastermind:"I woke up to pounding on my door", says Andrej Holm, a sociologist from the Humboldt University.
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