What does Big Brother see, while he is watching?
Talk by Simon Menner
Extracted from the 32C3 halfnarp
In the past years there has been a lot of discussion on the topic of state sponsored surveillance. But hardly any material can be accessed to support the general debate due to vaguely declared security concerns. So we are debating Big Brother with little knowledge about what he actually sees, while he is watching. Over the course of three years, I was able to research the archives left by East Germany’s Stasi to look for visual memories of this notorious surveillance system and more recently I was invited to spend some weeks looking at the archive by the Czechoslovak StB. Illustrating with images I have found during my research, I would like to address the question why this material is still relevant – even 25 years after the fall of the Iron Curtain.
#32c3 Who is the owner of a #stasi file – one who has been spied upon or the federal republic as the legal successor and heir of the files?
— zettmann (@zettmaninoff) 27. Dezember 2015
#32c3 If you want to read some #stasi files (in german) check out some 150+ pages here https://t.co/4bR11SWmzH #surveillance #bigbrother
— zettmann (@zettmaninoff) 27. Dezember 2015
#32c3 What does Big Brother see, while he is watching? – A selfie! #stasi #surveillance archives opened pic.twitter.com/TKwbBQDrn2
— zettmann (@zettmaninoff) 27. Dezember 2015
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