Op-Ed

Paradigm Shift in America: The NSA and Oversight of Intelligence

Original title: Amerika’da Paradigma Değişimi: NSA ve İstihbaratın Denetimi

The old market and trade understanding has changed completely; virtual markets and beyond that, the share of virtual trade in the total has gradually expanded. In today’s market understanding, there is the provision of goods in the form of ‘service’, ‘application’ or ‘software’ to the consumer. There are two things that the consumer can give to access this service: Money and/or personal data. In other words, it is possible to buy a ‘service’ in return by offering a small fee and/or our personal data. Consumers of the virtual world often prefer ‘free’ products and accept in advance to offer all their personal data to the seller in return. It is already slowly becoming apparent that this data exchange, which seems to be proceeding on the axis of mutual consent for now, is pregnant with extremely big problems…

Published in
Radikal
Date
29 November 2013
Language
Turkish