Derfor er personvern viktig

Vi lever i en verden der alt vi gjør på internett spores og lagres (hvis vi ikke motsetter oss personvernfokuserte tjenester). Hvordan kan det berøre deg – i dag eller i morgen? Og hva vil datainnsamlingen føre til hvis vi ikke gjør motstand? Les mer om dagens masseovervåkning, og hvordan den er en trussel mot et fritt samfunn.

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Commercial mass surveillance

The tech giants know everything about you – whether or not you use their services.

The business model

Your online behavior is the raw material from which one of the biggest economies in the history of the world has been built. But it isn’t the images you post, the comments you write or the messages you send that are the hard currency. It’s the data about the data that’s the true treasure. With what’s known as metadata, the tech giants aren’t satisfied with monitoring your life – they’ve decided to control it.

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Part 1: Big tech – they’ve collected so much data about you that they’ve lost control.

The actors behind the data collection

You already know which big companies collect data for commercial purposes. But the question is whether you’re aware of the absurd extent of this data collection. You can take as long as you like to think about it, but the answer is still ‘No’. Not even the companies themselves know how much data they collect, where it goes and how they should control it.

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Part 2: Data brokers – You've never even heard of them. They know almost everything about you.

The actors behind the data collection

It's not just the tech giants that carry out commercial mass surveillance. There are companies working in the shadows, with a single purpose: to collect, buy and sell data about your online activities. And the lists they offer for sale don't make pleasant reading.

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How the commercial mass surveillance companies collect your data and map your life.

The technology behind the data collection

The tech giants follow every step you take regardless of whether or not you use their services. But how does it actually work when they steal your behavior and place it in huge AI and machine learning systems to build a profile of you? Here are the methods behind the surveillance.

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Organizations that collect data often claim it’s anonymous. Research shows this is impossible.

The collected data can’t be kept anonymous

When the tech giants collect huge quantities of data about your internet behavior, they always hide behind defenses such as ‘it’s only metadata’ or ‘we’ve anonymized the information’. But if you collect big data, it’s impossible to keep it anonymous. It’s enough for your phone to reveal four places you’ve been to work out that it’s you.

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State mass surveillance

Democratic and authoritarian countries are competing to see which of them can carry out mass surveillance most and best (worst).

USA and their friends in the surveillance alliance Four***** Eyes have demonstrated that they have the capacity, the desire and the experience to monitor who they want, when they want, anywhere in the world. China and other totalitarian countries use mass surveillance to control their inhabitants. It often feels like a dystopian arms race is going on around the world. But who is actually the best (worst) at making George Orwell’s 1984 a reality?

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Going Dark: Krigen mot kryptering er på frammarsj. Gjennom et lyssky samarbeid mellom USA og EU.

Under slagordet «Tenk på barna» forsøkte EU-kommisjonen å innføre totalovervåkning av alle EU-borgere. Da skandalen ble avslørt, viste det seg at amerikanske teknologiselskaper og sikkerhetstjenester hadde vært involvert i lovforslaget, som gikk under navnet «Chat Control», og at det hele hadde vært styrt av helt andre interesser. Nå kommer neste forsøk. Nye rambukker er hentet frem med «Going Dark»-initiativet. Men ambisjonen er den samme: å installere statlig spionprogramvare på alle europeiske mobiltelefoner og datamaskiner.

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The consequences of mass surveillance

Monitoring your internet behavior has consequences – you may just not be seeing them yet.

How the collected data is used

Commercial and state mass surveillance collects absurd quantities of data about people all over the world. But what is all the data used for? When your internet behavior has been mapped, what might it lead to?

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Both state and commercial mass surveillance risk transforming free democracies into surveillance states

How data collection threatens a free society

Authoritarian states use mass surveillance to control the population. Even in democratic countries, we see direct consequences of collecting absurd amounts of data. But there are also less visible effects: both state and commercial mass surveillance show signs of being able to transform free societies into the complete opposite.

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To those of you with nothing to hide: One day you might have. Because you don’t make the rules.

Konsekvensene av masseovervåkning: Vi har alle noe å skjule.

The most common argument used in defense of mass surveillance is ‘If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear’. Try saying that to women in the US states where abortion has suddenly become illegal. Say it to investigative journalists in authoritarian countries. Saying ‘I have nothing to hide’ means you stop caring about anyone fighting for their freedom. And one day, you might be one of them.

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