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One Nation Under Surveillance - A New Social Contract to Defend Freedom Without Sacrificing Liberty (Hardcover)
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One Nation Under Surveillance - A New Social Contract to Defend Freedom Without Sacrificing Liberty (Hardcover)
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What limits, if any, should be placed on a government's efforts to
spy on its citizens in the name of national security? Spying on
foreigners has long been regarded as an unseemly but necessary
enterprise. Spying on one's own citizens in a democracy, by
contrast, has historically been subject to various forms of legal
and political restraint. For most of the twentieth century these
regimes were kept distinct. That position is no longer tenable.
Modern threats do not respect national borders. Changes in
technology make it impractical to distinguish between 'foreign' and
'local' communications. And our culture is progressively reducing
the sphere of activity that citizens can reasonably expect to be
kept from government eyes. The main casualty of this transformed
environment will be privacy. Recent battles over privacy have been
dominated by fights over warrantless electronic surveillance and
CCTV; the coming years will see debates over DNA databases, data
mining, and biometric identification. There will be protests and
lawsuits, editorials and elections resisting these attacks on
privacy. Those battles are worthy. But the war will be lost. Modern
threats increasingly require that governments collect such
information, governments are increasingly able to collect it, and
citizens increasingly accept that they will collect it. This book
proposes a move away from questions of whether governments should
collect information and onto more problematic and relevant
questions concerning its use. By reframing the relationship between
privacy and security in the language of a social contract, mediated
by a citizenry who are active participants rather than passive
targets, the book offers a framework to defend freedom without
sacrificing liberty.
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