> As shown above, these technologies, initially used to enforce violent occupation, apartheid, and genocide have found a lucrative global market...
Interesting choice of words. Very sad. As in times before, the Tor project is making it clear that their primary directive is to advance a specific brand of a liberal world older using technology. Neo-colonialists with their manifest destiny of subverting nation states' policies that disagree with their own. Towing the line of criminality. Creating technology people get to use as they see fit is not a priority, making sure the technology enables specific change is.
The NSA has been using pattern of life analysis for at least a decade now for assasinations. China's mass surveillance tech is superior to anything israel has. Some of this surveillance tech could have saved tens of thousands of lives in the iraq and afghanistan wars if it was available then.
Technology is not the enemy here, nor is it the solution. The use of technology like this can and should be regulated by governments. Even with a warrant, most of this stuff shouldn't be available to law enforcement. But it's proliferation for use by militaries and spies is unavoidable, unless there is an international treaty on the topic (impossible to enforce).
