The Exchange

Call it a Database State or National Surveillance State, the protection of our civil liberties in this digitalized world is in danger.

As prof. Jack Balkin writes in his blog Balkinization: “The Obama Administration is continuing a long term bipartisan project of constructing our National Surveillance State”. This new kind of State “uses surveillance, data collection, collation and analysis to identify problems, to head off potential threats, to govern populations, and to deliver valuable social services”. This growing use of digitalized information to classify and record actions by citizens is not only confined to the United States. In a flat and global world this does not make any sense. The surveillance society is not only a Foucauldian philosophical intuition, but also an “EU-wide issue”.  Read this article by Tony Buyan published by the Guardian in May.

Whether you live in the U.S. or in Europe the Matrix has got you. Follow the white rabbit.