surveillance

Did Edward Snowden Change the World — One Year Later

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It’s been a year since Edward Snowden revealed the the documents that uncovered the NSA programs to spy on Americans, and the tech companies who are complicit in that surveillance. Efforts to reign in the government have stalled, Snowden is exiled in Russia, and the NSA continues to spy on Americans. Has anything really changed? … Read more

Kevin Kelly – Why You Should Embrace Surveillance, Not Fight It

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In this opinion piece for Wired, Kevin Kelly argues that we should embrace surveillance because it is a necessary piece of the new technological world we are creating. But there are two kinds of surveillance, and only one of them is workable. [O]ur central choice now is whether this surveillance is a secret, one-way panopticon … Read more