The world 9/11 created: The sprawling, dark legacy of U.S. counterterrorism

“When state intelligence techniques led, pushed by a preoccupation with counterterrorism, the personal sector adopted,” wrote Wesley Wark, senior fellow at Canada’s Heart for Worldwide Governance Innovation. “The company world might ultimately use drones to carry parcels to our doorsteps, however what it actually grasped was the potential for mass information surveillance and analytics to search out, goal, exploit, and maintain client audiences, aided by the rise of social media platforms for expansive commercial.”