tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post640694166617658124..comments2024-03-30T00:09:27.602+13:00Comments on Not PC: #SurveillanceState: Big Tech says no!Peter Cresswellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10699845031503699181noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post-68438254622163996192013-12-10T12:35:51.488+13:002013-12-10T12:35:51.488+13:00Forgot to mention in my above comment to look at t...Forgot to mention in my above comment to look at the bottom 'update 1' to my linked post: IRD are already trawling social media.Mark Hubbardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02541153163041831880noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post-79392182751472046282013-12-10T12:32:15.977+13:002013-12-10T12:32:15.977+13:00Sorry to belabour a hobby horse of my own, here, b...Sorry to belabour a hobby horse of my own, here, but compared to the tax authorities, which are given carte balance powers to run an almost one-world tax surveillance state via double tax treaties - which are mainly about information swapping and cooperation - and the data gathering and analysis <a href="http://lifebehindtheirondrape.blogspot.co.nz/2013/04/privacy-orwellian-goverment-mining.html" rel="nofollow">they will soon be doing, if not already</a>, NSA, PRISM, GCSB, et al, are primitive.<br /><br />The tax surveillance state - forget the tax, I simply mean in terms of our privacy and right to be left alone if harming no one - is where the rubber truly meets the road to our serfdom.<br /><br />Mark Hubbardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02541153163041831880noreply@blogger.com