Authoritarians Use Terror Attack & many other forms of deceptive tactics As Excuse for Power Grabs. This series of post will focus on the terrorism excuse. Surveillance is another word for monitoring of the behavior and activities of people, normally aimed at influencing, managing or protecting. In other words, surveillance can have positive and or negative effects.
In the wake of terror attacks governments from around the world are calling for increased surveillance. Global intelligence agencies want millions of new surveillance camera. The NSA says"lets listen to more phone calls & map the entire Internet".
But top security experts agree that mass surveillance is ineffective for stopping specific terror attacks. A former head of the NSA’s global intelligence gathering operations – Bill Binney – says that the mass surveillance INTERFERES with the government’s ability to catch bad guys,
So to me it seems logical to ask: Why do we need all of this new data collection if it wont protect us from acts of terror??? if its not going to protect us in real time why are they collecting it.
the government might use this info later to introduce policies (that common people would support - like, fight terrorism - but in fact the policies would secretly strips away rights that we would really want to oppose once we knew the truth. However, our opposition might then be impossible because of the mass surveillance enabling the authorities to identify us and remove us calling us crazy & are a public threat.
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