The Short And Terrifying History Of Modern Surveillance

CYBER

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4 • 645 Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

On the show, we talk a lot about the state of Orwellian world we’ve found ourselves in: big data, corporate and governmental surveillance. You know, Big Brother.

But where did it come from? What’s it’s historical context? To answer these questions, we have author and Assistant Professor at the University of Alabama, Lawrence Cappello on the show who wrote a book called None of Your Damn Business: Privacy in the United States from the Gilded Age to the Digital Age. In it he traces the over 100 year history of how the surveillance state came to be.

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0:00.0	On the United States
0:07.0	It's got the code it's going to launch.
0:10.0	It's a unit system.
0:13.0	I know this.
0:15.0	It's all the files of the whole park.
0:17.0	It tells her everything.
0:19.0	Sir, he's uploading the virus.
0:21.8	Eagle won.
0:22.6	The package is being delivered.
0:24.2	On the show, we talk a lot about the state of the Orwellian world we found ourselves in.
0:28.6	Big data.
0:29.6	Corporate and governmental surveillance.
0:31.7	You know, big brother.
0:34.3	In 1949, George Orwell had a vision of the future.
0:39.4	Today, that vision is still a best-selling novel, and his prophecy remains as terrifying as ever.
0:47.3	But where did it come from?
0:51.0	What's the historical context?
0:53.2	To answer these questions, we have author and
0:55.2	assistant professor at the University of Alabama, Lawrence Capello on the show, who wrote a book
0:59.8	called None of Your Damn Business, Privacy in the United States from the Gilded Age to the Digital
1:05.1	Age. In it, he traces the over 100-year history of how the surveillance state came to be.
1:11.4	I'm Ben Maku from my apartment in New York, and you're listening to Cyber.
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