If you think the government is watching your every move, that's crazy--but if you think the government is too good or too honest to try it, that's naive. Whether in the name of fighting crime, communism, terrorism, anarchy, military enemies, or just in the name of patriotism, our government has watched us before and will watch us again. As technology improves, privacy as we know it will inevitably evaporate; the best we can hope for is the power to watch the watchers.
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- Government Surveillance and the Fourth AmendmentOfficers Search for Drugs
- Does the Right to Privacy Protect Us from Government Surveillance?Camera Records Woman Leaving Work
- Project Echelon (1947-present)Suspected ECHELON Center
- COINTELPRO (1956-1971)J. Edgar Hoover
- The "Spygate" NSA Surveillance Program (2001-present)NSA Protest
- Total Information Awareness (2002-2003)TIA Web Site
- PATRIOT Act II / VICTORY Act (never implemented)Orrin Hatch
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