Its operations were designed to produce ignorance through secrecy and the careful evasion. [causal]
Its operations were designed to produce ignorance through secrecy and the careful evasion of individual awareness. Wylie calls this "information warfare," correctly acknowledging the asymmetries of knowledge and power that are essential to the means of behavioral modification: I think it's worse than bullying, because people don't necessarily know it's being done to them.
Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Cap…, loc. 874