9/11: The day we lost our privacy and power

[the_leander]

Investigative reporter Duncan Campbell reflects how 9/11 has torpedoed resistance to intrusion and undermined privacy rights born of earlier struggles. It may, irreversibility, have changed the way we think.

9/11 was a savage nightmare that took too long to happen for some in the West.

For 12 fallow years, from the fall of the Wall to the fall of the Towers, there was a brief golden period in which no great common enemy menaced all unseen beyond the distant horizon. There was no simple spectre of fear on which to construct, fund and operate surveillance platforms, or reason to tap data funnels into society's communications and transport arteries.

Read on.

 

[Dammy]

You mean like Echelon and Carnivore that was pre-2001?

 

[the_leander]

You mean like Echelon and Carnivore that was pre-2001?

I see you didn't actually bother to read the article.