Tony Gosling Published time: March 26, 2014 08:20
For centuries the most powerful intelligence gathering service on the planet was the Catholic rite of ‘confession’, where millions of people told vital info to the Pope on guilty acts which could then be used to blackmail them and their co-sinners.
But you’d be wrong if you thought that was mostly over with Luther and the reformation. Priest-spooks of the new church at Google and Facebook took over where the confession box left off.
“Facebook have my life and I worry, ‘what will they do with it?’” a friend admitted to me this week. It’s a fair concern and one the software and social media giants have skirted round, paying their PR and legal departments to keep public debate to a minimum. Without a cast iron assurance that our data really is private we have to assume they hand everything to the NSA.
By shilly-shallying with our privacy, Zuckerberg and his Facebook board, by omission, are making it clear they are more afraid of ‘them’ than ‘us’, and they're bending over for the spooks.
Why worry if we have done nothing wrong? The chilling character of Gestapo torture chief Sturmbahnfuhrer Kessler summed it up precisely in the BBCs 1978 drama series on the French resistance ‘Secret Army’. In the episode ‘Trapped’ he explains: “Information. That’s the most important weapon we have. Information. My job is obtaining it. Every government fighting terrorism faces this problem and always will, I expect.”
Yes, those power-crazed NATO spooks crossed back over the line, into Gestapo-land, when they decided to treat the entire population of planet earth as the Nazis and the fictional Kessler did the French resistance. By obtaining our private information without going to a judge for a warrant they broke the law and criminalized their own profession. The vast abuse of private information by the Nazis was the very reason those laws were put there in the first place, to prevent anything like the Gestapo establishing itself again.
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