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Don't know how many people caught this when it was broadcast (i don't tend to have CNBC in the block of a few channels that i flip through late at night for background viewing) but my parents told me about the documentary Big Brother, Big Business and I immediately wished I had seen it.
A little bit of searching on torrent sites yielded a shitty, poorly-edited capture. Well, it was terrific material. While most of it is information people here know, it's perfectly in line with the sort of stuff we always try to show friends and family who think we're exaggerating about matters relating to privacy, surveillance, etc. Thus, i took a hatchet to the file and turned it into something that's viewable and has no commercials, etc.
If you want to grab it (471 MB, XviD/MP3) i've put up a torrent. Do me a favor if you can, however... i'm trying to pre-seed this a little bit before everyone goes to town on it. If possible, wait until about 1200 or 1300 EST before starting your download. I should have it seeding from at least two locations by then, maybe more.
Big Brother, Big Business
NOTE: It looks like what i originally acquired was a repackage of this video. You can view it there (with commercials, etc) or grab the torrent if you want a personal copy more suited to being added to your media library.
A little bit of searching on torrent sites yielded a shitty, poorly-edited capture. Well, it was terrific material. While most of it is information people here know, it's perfectly in line with the sort of stuff we always try to show friends and family who think we're exaggerating about matters relating to privacy, surveillance, etc. Thus, i took a hatchet to the file and turned it into something that's viewable and has no commercials, etc.
If you want to grab it (471 MB, XviD/MP3) i've put up a torrent. Do me a favor if you can, however... i'm trying to pre-seed this a little bit before everyone goes to town on it. If possible, wait until about 1200 or 1300 EST before starting your download. I should have it seeding from at least two locations by then, maybe more.
Big Brother, Big Business
Every day technologies are being used to monitor Americans with unprecedented scrutiny -- from driving habits to workplace surveillance. Shoppers and diners are observed and analyzed; Internet searches are monitored and used as evidence in court.
It is big business that collects most of the data about us. But increasingly, it's the government that's using it.
In a Special Report airing Thursday at 9pm and midnight ET, "Big Brother Big Business," CNBC takes a look at the companies behind the powerful business of personal information and the people whose lives are affected by it, including: a woman who lost her job due to mistaken identity; a man whose cell phone records were stolen by his former employer; a woman whose personal information was stolen from a company she had never heard of; a man who discovered his rental car company was tracking his every move.
The documentary also looks at how the FBI, the Border Patrol, police departments and schools are using biometric technologies to establish identity as well as an inside peek at an AOL division that works solely to satisfy the requests of law enforcement for information about AOL's members.
It is big business that collects most of the data about us. But increasingly, it's the government that's using it.
In a Special Report airing Thursday at 9pm and midnight ET, "Big Brother Big Business," CNBC takes a look at the companies behind the powerful business of personal information and the people whose lives are affected by it, including: a woman who lost her job due to mistaken identity; a man whose cell phone records were stolen by his former employer; a woman whose personal information was stolen from a company she had never heard of; a man who discovered his rental car company was tracking his every move.
The documentary also looks at how the FBI, the Border Patrol, police departments and schools are using biometric technologies to establish identity as well as an inside peek at an AOL division that works solely to satisfy the requests of law enforcement for information about AOL's members.
NOTE: It looks like what i originally acquired was a repackage of this video. You can view it there (with commercials, etc) or grab the torrent if you want a personal copy more suited to being added to your media library.
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