Deconstructing the Surveillance State

22/09/2014 1h 3min
Deconstructing the Surveillance State

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If the government’s been spying on us for decades, what’s new now? Why is bulk data collection so particularly nefarious? What is metadata anyway, and what does the government do with it? Does the government actually catch terrorists through mass surveillance? Why do people treat terrorism differently from other violent crimes? The defenders of surveillance say that “if you haven’t done anything wrong, you have nothing to be afraid of,” but does this justification hold water? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.