Documentos de Académico
Documentos de Profesional
Documentos de Cultura
Mass Surveillance
in the Digital Era
by Cole Barrow
The very word secrecy is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically
opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings. We decided long ago that the dangers of
excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweighed the dangers which are cited to justify
it. John F. Kennedy, 1961.
gave the NSA the ability to spy on the phone calls and
FISA court approval, the agency does not tell the court
can target, and the FISA court judge then issues a simple
in unconstitutional practices.
with the aid of the FBI, CIA, and the IRS (Perlstein,
With
geopolitical
change
and
technological
(Brzezinski, 1970).
digital era.
COLE BARROW
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