The Surveillance Society

The more technology endangers our privacy, the less we seem to prize it. 

We post family photos on social-media sites and ship our credit-card numbers to total strangers. 

We ask websites we’ve never visited—designed by people we’ve never met—to give us advice on treating embarrassing maladies and hunting for potential mates. 

But the government is different, as Litt acknowledged in his recent speech, because “the government has the power to audit our tax returns, to prosecute and imprison us, to grant or deny licenses to do business and many other things. And,” he continued, “there is an entirely understandable concern that the government may abuse this power.”

Read more: http://nation.time.com/2013/08/01/the-surveillance-society/#ixzz2d6fdNmFd