Big Data/Operation Condor

[alice malice]

A PLUG for Dilma at the end of the article. The race to the wire was
electrical; her final speech reminded me of Lula standing in the rain,
as was his wont, for whatever reason, to give long impassioned
speeches in the pouring rain, his cigar in his pocket. The daughter of
Brazil's tortured past, there in in red, never worked so hard for the
workers as she did in this campaign, her back to the wall, only the
poor to hold her up.

  http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/27/magazine/27LULA.html

On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 10:32 AM, Thomas Eckhardt
<thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de> wrote:
> Yet another link from the "Nation" with interesting information loosely
> related to various aspects of BE:
>
> http://www.thenation.com/blog/185017/anti-socialist-origins-big-data
>
> On "computerized intelligence systems, including software" provided to South
> American dictatorships by the U.S.:
>
> 'The information being handled by this equipment might not have been “big
> data,” but the idea was the same: to gather real-time intelligence from as
> many sources as possible, analyze it, act as quickly and in as coordinated a
> manner as possible, and then store it for future use. These upgrades allowed
> intelligence agencies, either working in tandem through Condor or
> individually, to kill or disappear more than 100,000 Latin American citizens
> and torture maybe an equal number.'
>
> An exaggeration of the importance of the software, I suspect, but
> interesting nevertheless.
>
> Thomas
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