News about the extent of NSA domestic surveillance continues to unfold. I join with others in their outrage, revolutionary zeal, and so on. But among my fellow opponents of domestic surveillance, I don’t think there has been an honest reckoning of what it would take to eliminate domestic surveillance, broadly defined, of innocent Americans. It’s worth thinking through how we could structure the government’s activities in order to minimize the amount of information it could have a plausible excuse to collect.
Surveillance and the modern administrative state
Surveillance and the modern administrative…
Surveillance and the modern administrative state
News about the extent of NSA domestic surveillance continues to unfold. I join with others in their outrage, revolutionary zeal, and so on. But among my fellow opponents of domestic surveillance, I don’t think there has been an honest reckoning of what it would take to eliminate domestic surveillance, broadly defined, of innocent Americans. It’s worth thinking through how we could structure the government’s activities in order to minimize the amount of information it could have a plausible excuse to collect.