Safe and Sorry – Terrorism & Mass Surveillance
Sources: Terrorist surveillance program: Original press release: http://1.usa.gov/1p0lZXT Assessment of potential effect of surveillance measures if implemented before 9/11: Interview with...
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Terrorism is very scary, especially when it happens close to homeand not in some faraway place.Nobody likes to be afraid, and we were eager to make the fear go away.So we demanded more security.In the last decade, it’s become increasingly normalfor civil liberties to be eroded and for government agencies to spy on citizens,to collect and store their personal information.Regardless of whether you’re a fan of right- or left-wing policies,this affects every one of us.So we have to take a look at the data and ask ourselves honestly,“Has all of this actually made us safer?”In the aftermath of 9/11, the US government concludedthat the law had not kept pace with technology.It created the Terrorist Surveillance Programinitially to intercept communications linked to al-Qa...
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Terrorism is very scary, especially when it happens close to homeand not in some faraway place.Nobody likes to be afraid, and we were eager to make the fear go away.So we demanded more security.In the last decade, it’s become increasingly normalfor civil liberties to be eroded and for government agencies to spy on citizens,to collect and store their personal information.Regardless of whether you’re a fan of right- or left-wing policies,this affects every one of us.So we have to take a look at the data and ask ourselves honestly,“Has all of this actually made us safer?”In the aftermath of 9/11, the US government concludedthat the law had not kept pace with technology.It created the Terrorist Surveillance Programinitially to intercept communications linked to al-Qa...
