Increasing numbers of ‘terror suspects’ are being arrested on the
basis of online and CCTV surveillance data. Authorities claim they act
in the public interest, but does this intense surveillance keep us
safer?
“I woke up to pounding on my door”, says Andrej Holm, a sociologist
from the Humboldt University. In what felt like a scene from a movie, he
was taken from his Berlin home by armed men after a systematic
monitoring of his academic research deemed him the probable leader of a
militant group. After 30 days in solitary confinement, he was released
without charges. Across Western Europe and the USA, surveillance of
civilians has become a major business. With one camera for every 14
people in London and drones being used by police to track individuals,
the threat of living in a Big Brother state is becoming a reality. At an
annual conference of hackers, keynote speaker Jacob Appelbaum asserts,
“to be free of suspicion is the most important right to be truly free”.
But with most people having a limited understanding of this world of
cyber surveillance and how to protect ourselves, are our basic freedoms
already being lost?
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