Intelligence officials have explicitly endorsed blurring the public-private boundary for surveillance

Evidence

An effective partnership with the private sector must be formed so information can move quickly back and forth from public to private and classified to unclassified… to protect the nation’s critical infrastructure. Recent reports of possible partnership between Google and the government point to the kind of joint efforts—and shared challenges—that we are likely to see in the future… such arrangements will muddy the waters between the traditional roles of the government and the private sector.… Cyberspace knows no borders, and our defensive efforts must be similarly seamless. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 382

Categorization

• CANDY: The former NSA Director openly celebrating ‘muddy waters’ between government and private sector is a quotable, slightly absurd moment worth sharing.
• XREF: connects to: National security agencies have coveted private-sector surveillance capacities as seamless extensions of state power — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 381; Visibility and invisibility must be balanced for surveillance to function — Jeremy Bentham, The Panopticon Writings, 47; Surveillance is founded on asymmetries of knowledge and power — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 254

Broader Connections

• Visibility and invisibility must be balanced for surveillance to function #complicates (0.75) — Jeremy Bentham, The Panopticon Writings, 47
• Surveillance is founded on asymmetries of knowledge and power #complicates (0.75) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 254