Tag: AltaVista

  • Monopolies Make Spying Easier

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    TIM WU explains why monoplies make spying easier in The New Yorker magazine: These days, America has one dominant search engine, one dominant social-networking site, and four phone companies. The structure of the information industry often goes unnoticed, but it has an enormous effect on the ease with which the government spies on citizens. The remarkable…