March 18, 2021
Recently, hackers breached the network of Verdaka, a security company, and gained access to scenes from more than 149,000 security cameras. Verdaka customers include companies like Tesla and Cloudflare, as well as prisons, hospitals, banks, offices and schools. To illustrate the level of surveillance already underway in the U.S., one of the perpetrators shared information from the hack with The Washington Post. That information included Verdaka’s list of some 24,000 clients as well as images and videos.
If social mood shifts to negative, look for increasing authoritarianism and even more pervasive surveillance to become the “new normal,” as noted in the January 2014 issue of The Socionomist.
To learn more about the connection between surveillance and social mood, read “The Authoritarianism Battle: Governments Increase their Monitoring and Control of Citizens.”
If you look closely, you can see patterns in social mood that help you predict social trends. Learn more with the Socionomics Premier Membership.
The Socionomist enables you to see trend-shaping waves of social mood, as reflected by the stock market — and capitalize on them. The April 2023 issue looks at negative social mood’s influence on the tumultuous history of the Mexican Revolution. Mood Riffs topics include President Joe Biden’s reelection prospects, challenges facing corporate giants, the new workplace trend known as Bare-Minimum Monday, and British Columbia’s effort to relax laws governing hard drugs. Read the April issue when you become a Socionomics Premier Member. 
