In 2014 my friend James Bridle wrote an important essay called All Cameras Are Police Cameras. http://shorttermmemoryloss.com/nor/2014/11/07/all-cameras-are-police-cameras/ Ten years later, this is still urgent. 

All Cameras Are Police Cameras

October 2024  — 
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In 2014 my friend James Bridle wrote an important essay called All Cameras Are Police Cameras. http://shorttermmemoryloss.com/nor/2014/11/07/all-cameras-are-police-cameras/ Ten years later, this is still urgent. 

“Each Wall, and the Abstract Wall in its totality, is a model-mirror of social processes. … One of the defining characteristics of the Wall is that it is not, and cannot be, voluntary. … Each successive Wall is only erected when the relevant technologies and social systems have arisen that no longer depend on consent.”