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Isn’t this metadata from bulk surveillance?
by threshold 5y ago
Isn’t this metadata from bulk surveillance?
- qualudeheart 5y agoLiteral 1984.
- BerislavLopac 5y agoMore like 1584.
- gilleain 5y agoA year before the founding of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roanoke_Colony https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roanoke_Colony in (now) North Carolina, apparently.
- detaro 5y ago> If you want to find out more about the team’s work on the application of network analysis to the State Papers, see their articles Metadata, Surveillance, and the Tudor State, and A Tale of Two Snowdens: Dataveillance in History That's the point apparently.
- shatnersbassoon 5y agoThomas Cromwell was the most prominent spymaster of Tudor times and letters to him feature heavily here. So not all of it is bulk surveillance, some of it seems to be old-fashioned human intelligence gathering.
- DylanSp 5y agoHow much intelligence/espionage work did Cromwell do? I'm more familiar with hearing about Francis Walsingham (worked for Elizabeth I) in that area.