SOC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Edward Snowden, Data Mining, The Whistleblower
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Policing, security, and predictive analytics/adam smith"s view of the market. The zero tolerance approach to fighting crime and deviance can have the opposite affect and create crime and deviance. Big data: should be used to prevent when dramatic and dangerous actions because it is used to predict when women were pregnant even before they told their families. In the era of big data we are looking for correlation between anything and everything. The collect all data because they don"t know what will be relevant. Resulting in total surveillance and total control. Civil disobedience: going against a law for human rights, targeting a law which you think is unjust. Mandela would be considered a terrorist in this century because he encouraged people to break the law. Social media might be a way to get around this total surveillance. Usa has the right to bear arms to protect yourself against foreign and domestic threats.