CANADA: The total surveillance society approaches
01 January 2012
CANADA:
The total surveillance society approaches (Ottawa Citizen, link): "
We will soon reach the point where governments will have the capacity, should they wish it, to monitor, record, and permanently archive the communications and activities of their citizens from birth to death. That’s the sobering message of a new Brookings Institution report by John Villasenor, an engineering professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. “Within the next few years,” he writes, “it will be technically possible and financially feasible for authoritarian governments to record nearly everything that is said or done within their borders - every phone conversation, electronic message, social media interaction, the movements of nearly every person and vehicle, and video from every street corner.”" See:
Recording Everything: Digital Storage as an Enabler of Authoritarian Governments by John Villasenor (pdf, link)