The New Panopticon is interesting in that the author argued that there was a shift between the government monitoring individuals to the private sector monitoring individuals. I think that whoever, private or public, monitors someone elses information is spying on them in violation of the SPIRIT of the Right to Privacy. There was no way our fore-fathers could have known that such abuses would take place, so it is up to our generation to rectify this. Perhaps it is time for a constitutional convention.
What is really interesting to me about this is that Osama Bin Laden did not have the Internet or phone service hooked up to his Pakistani hideout. It is pretty obvious to me that he knew that are ways in which we are monitored everyday and by taking himself back into a time before the Internet he forced a surveillance industry that is based largely on technology to go back in time with him. Of course he hid with the Pakistani's help, but nonetheless I think the lack of the Internet and a phone helped him hide.
Power is going to be abused. In the 21st century they monitor our phones, our computers, and basically everything about us. The only way to escape it is to live somewhere remote literally disconnected from it all, but are those that do this hiding from something or are they just not wanting to be apart of the digital era?
There was obviously a mix here. http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20110502/sc_livescience/hitechsurveillanceplusoldfashionedintelligenceworkfoundosamabinladen
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