Getting to Gilead: From Surveillance to Control
summary
Traces financial surveillance from 19th‑century private detectives and credit bureaus to vertical filing cabinets, teletypes and computers that centralize data, then shows how governments piggybacked on that access (FBI desks in bureaus, Patriot Act bank queries). Uses Margaret Atwood’s Gilead as a case study where women's payment cards were frozen after a coup and digital-only money lets rulers cut people off with a flag in accounts; cites North Korea defectors plunging to 64 a year due to CCTV.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:27Financial Privacy
- 1:30When and How
- 5:27Supporting Technologies
- 8:30Surveillance to Control
- 9:13What is Gilead
- 11:25How did it happen
- 14:15Michelle Lai in Greenland
- 16:44How close are we to Gilead
- 17:42How normalization becomes the enemy
- 20:04Margaret Atwood
- 22:17Women in the audience
- 23:22Women in Zcash
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