The United States has now reached the point where a total �surveillance society� has become a realistic possibility, the American Civil Liberties Union warns in a new report.
�Many people still do not grasp that Big Brother surveillance is no longer the stuff of books and movies,� said Barry Steinhardt, Director of the ACLU�s Technology and Liberty Program and a co-author of the report.
�Given the capabilities of today�s technology, the only thing protecting us from a full-fledged surveillance society are the legal and political institutions we have inherited as Americans,� he added. �Unfortunately, the September 11 attacks have led some to embrace the fallacy that weakening the Constitution will strengthen America.�
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{ironically some of us who may be already there, in the sense of occupying little mini-TIA's, well, it's not that scary. I mean the idea of it happening to everybody else. it may be the only clear shot we ever get.
it's like the guillotine a little. worked great, at first. but it just kept on working and working and working...}
