Articles by Bill Blunden
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Mass Surveillance is Driven by the Private Sector
Bill Blunden - CounterPunch,
27 Apr 2015
The Lesson of Hacking Team’s Malware – In a nutshell: contrary to talking points that depict hi-tech companies as our saviors, they’re accomplices if not perpetrators of mass surveillance. And you can bet that CEOs will devote resources towards public relations aimed at obscuring this truth.
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Bill Blunden - CounterPunch,
7 Jul 2014
For multinational companies like Microsoft, which recently signed a $617 million deal with the Pentagon, there’s too much money at stake to not collaborate with intelligence services. And Microsoft continues to do so, both here in the United States and in countries like Russia.
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Bill Blunden - CounterPunch,
12 May 2014
These gestures are likely theater, being performed by executives on behalf of quarterly earnings. Such is the beauty of PR. Hi-tech companies don’t really need to fend off government spies but merely provide users with the perception of resistance.
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