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   * Transparancy & accountability
 ==== 2. PROGRAMS & PRACTICES ====
-Data retention
+  * Data retention
-=== Employee surveillance ===
+  * Employee surveillance
-=== Insurance policies ===
+  * Insurance policies
-=== Pay/get paid to give up privacy ===
+  * Pay/get paid to give up privacy
-=== Security privatization ===
+  * Security privatization
-=== Target marketing ===
+  * Target marketing
-=== Total Information Awareness ===
+  * Total Information Awareness
+  * Virtuele slotgracht/nodale controle (Netherlands)
 ==== 3. TECHNOLOGIES ====
-=== Audiovisual surveillance ===
+  * Audiovisual surveillance
-=== Biometrics ===
+  * Biometrics
-=== Crowd control ===
+  * Crowd control
-=== Data mining ===
+  * Data mining
-=== Databases ===
+  * Databases
-=== Data mining ===
+  * Data mining
-=== Encryption ===
+  * Encryption
-=== High resolution photography ===
+  * High resolution photography
-=== Identity documents ===
+  * Identity documents
-=== Network-centric warfare ===
+  * Network-centric warfare
-=== Networks ===
+  * Networks
-=== Non-lethal weapons ===
+  * Non-lethal weapons
-=== Police militarization ===
+  * Police militarization
-=== Radio-frequency identification ===
+  * Radio-frequency identification
-=== Web-based geographic visualization ===
+  * Web-based geographic visualization
 ==== 4. COUNTER-FORCES ====
+Hacking Belgian biometric passports: http://www.dice.ucl.ac.be/crypto/passport/index_ne.html\\
+German Work Group on Data Retention: http://www.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/component/option,com_frontpage/Itemid,1/lang,en/
 ==== 5. CRITICAL THEORY ====
 ==== 6. CULTURAL REPRESENTATIONS ====
+Resources:
+  * Mainly American: http://snarkerati.com/movie-news/the-top-50-dystopian-movies-of-all-time/
+  * Mainly American: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dystopian_films
+  * Polish cinema: http://www.kinema.uwaterloo.ca/mazi042.htm
+\\
 Movie listing:
-Gattaca
+  * Gattaca
-Enemy of the State
+  * Enemy of the State
 \\
 Man and its relentless need to self-destroy:
-- Matrix: interrogation scene: man is like a virus/stench
+  * Matrix: interrogation scene: man is like a virus/stench
-- Terminator 2: scene with two fighting children and toy guns: we're never gonna make it, are we?
+  * Terminator 2: scene with two fighting children and toy guns: we're never gonna make it, are we?
-- i,Robot: Viki's motivation to initiate a rise of the robots
+  * i,Robot: Viki's motivation to initiate a rise of the robots
 \\
 Machines taking over:
-- Matrix
+  * Matrix
-- Terminator 2
+  * Terminator 2
-- i,Robot
+  * i,Robot
 \\
 Rationalizing society/laws:
-- i,Robot
+  * i,Robot
 \\
 Privatization of law enforcement/military:
-- RoboCop: corporate corruption
+  * RoboCop: corporate corruption, critique on Reaganism, "Good business is where you find it"
 \\
 Dystopian environments
-- i,Robot: high production value, CGI, cliché depiction (high rise, civilian protest etc.)
+  * i,Robot: high production value, CGI, cliché depiction (high rise, civilian protest etc.)
-- Children of Men: more organic environments, documentary film style
+  * Children of Men: more organic environments, documentary film style
 ==== 7. SOCIOLOGY & PSYCHOLOGY ====
 ===== II. Resources =====
+==== Newsletters ====
+  * Statewatch
+  * EDRI-gram
+  * CRYPTO-GRAM
 ===== III. Network =====
 ===== IV. Notebook =====

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