Communications technology
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(technology) | |
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| Interest of | • Vint Cerf • Mark Klein |
Examples
| Page name | Description |
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| "Social media" | Websites in which users "connect" to their friends. Originally used mainly to track and monitor people, but as time has gone on, increasingly also to exert covert influence on people. |
| 3G | |
| 4G | Mobile internet access standard |
| 5G | |
| Command and control server | |
| Internet | The global system of interconnected computer networks. |
| Internet of things | |
| Language | |
| Mobile phone | |
| Radio | |
| Satellite | |
| Smartphone | A tool of mass surveillance |
| Starlink | |
| Telephone | |
| Television | A tool of 20th century commercially-controlled media, now used as a tool of mass surveillance. |
| Wi-Fi | |
| World Wide Web |
Related Quotations
| Page | Quote | Author | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| UK | “The UK's communications watchdog Ofcom has overturned its ban on the use of GSM gateways (COMUGs) for overseas phone calls – leaving one of the longest prosecutions in modern English legal history hanging in the balance. The decision comes after a controversial public consultation exercise held earlier this year, in which The Register caught the Home Office's secret spy powers unit trying to anonymously lobby the regulator and keep the ban.” | Gareth Corfield | 10 July 2017 |
| UK/Deep state | “The UK's communications watchdog Ofcom has overturned its ban on the use of GSM gateways (COMUGs) for overseas phone calls – leaving one of the longest prosecutions in modern English legal history hanging in the balance. The decision comes after a controversial public consultation exercise held earlier this year, in which The Register caught the Home Office's secret spy powers unit trying to anonymously lobby the regulator and keep the ban.” | Gareth Corfield | 10 July 2017 |
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