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Slightly off-topic, but still quite relevant, is the work that the Dutch police are doing, in collaboration with academics and IT specialists, to spy on social movements.

There was a talk last week by Peter de Beijer (Dutch National Police) and Allard R. Feddes (Post-doctoral researcher at the Social Psychology Department at the University of Amsterdam) called "The role of social media in studying processes of radicalisation".

To help cut through the verbiage: this is about reading your emails and texts, watching you online, creating linked databases with your information, and devising psychological methods to prevent you from resisting your transformation into a passive lump of clay.

http://ehumanities.nl/news-general/center-for-creation-content-and-techn...