Wilkerson: "Let's make it a commercial empire and let's maintain that empire in terms of commerce and not in terms of killing people, killing people for oil or killing people for human rights. I think both are just as bad as the other..."
Daniel Sandström, krönika i SvD 3.11.13 om GCHQs besök på The Guardian i juli. "vad händer med Amazons börskurs när CIA, som är storkund hos Amazons digitala molnservice, inte gillar vad Washington Post gör? Eller vad händer när tidningarnas avslöjanden påverkar USA:s handelsavtal med Europa, vilket i sin tur påverkar villkoren för Amazons globala expansion? Det kan mycket väl visa sig att Jeff Bezos inte är ett bättre försvar för journalistiken än vinkelslipen och borren"
BRUSSELS (AFP) – A long-awaited trade deal between the European Union and the United States could be in jeopardy over allegations that Washington bugged EU offices, European Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding warned.
Alice Marwick, New York Review of Books Jan 2014 Here I will discuss two things: the involuntary, or passive, collecting of data by private corporations; and the voluntary, or active, collection and aggregation of their own personal data by individuals. While I think it is the former that we should be more concerned with, the latter poses the question of whether it is possible for us to take full advantage of social media without playing into larger corporate interests.