{"id":17320,"date":"2017-05-13T01:10:47","date_gmt":"2017-05-13T06:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themindunleashed.com\/?p=17320"},"modified":"2017-05-13T01:23:27","modified_gmt":"2017-05-13T06:23:27","slug":"microsoft-warns-orwellian-future-wikileaks-exposes-participation-surveillance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themindunleashed.com\/2017\/05\/microsoft-warns-orwellian-future-wikileaks-exposes-participation-surveillance.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Warns of ‘Orwellian Future’ As WikiLeaks Exposes Participation With Surveillance"},"content":{"rendered":"

At the beginning of Microsoft’s annual “Build”<\/em> conference last week, CEO Satya Nadella\u00a0said the<\/a> tech giants have a responsibility to circumvent a dystopian, 1984-like future scenario.<\/p>\n

He said this as he introduced Microsoft’s plans to further develop artificial intelligence, as kind of a public relations move to assure people the technology wouldn’t get out of hand.<\/p>\n

However, if you look at Microsoft’s history and how extensively they have collaborated with government and the very forces that would use their technology to create a technocratic, Orwellian future, you’d see that this reassurance means nothing.<\/p>\n

Just yesterday, an installment of WikiLeaks’ Vault7 documents revealed that 2 CIA malware programs specifically infect Microsoft computers, to perform tasks on infected computers, check for scheduled events, and collect data.<\/p>\n

The Microsoft CEO’s statement was summarized by Yahoo<\/a>:<\/p>

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