nsa – Savage Minds / Notes and Queries in Anthropology Sun, 24 Dec 2017 01:44:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.1 “Anthropology” in the Snowden Surveillance Archive /2015/08/25/anthropology-in-the-snowden-surveillance-archive/ /2015/08/25/anthropology-in-the-snowden-surveillance-archive/#comments Tue, 25 Aug 2015 10:17:40 +0000 /?p=17652 Continue reading “Anthropology” in the Snowden Surveillance Archive →]]> A search for “anthropology” in the Snowden Surveillance Archive results in two hits. Both documents were created and presented by the UK GCHQ’s Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group (JTRIG) which sees anthropology as a method with which to “manipulate and control online discourse with extreme tactics of deception and reputation-destruction.” Take a look at the two GCHQ Powerpoints below and see how the surveillance apparatus views your discipline.

The ART of DECEPTION: Training for a New Generation of Online Covert Operations

Psychology: A New Kind of SIGDEV

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