Cradle of Surveillance

... campaign the U.S. administration was pushing for a more intensive search for potential villains lurking within U.S. society. This gave birth to PRISM. PRISM in turn gave birth to Snowden. Snowden essentially changed the public’s attitude toward surveillance from being virtually non-existent to cautious. Recent social surveys show that Americans have become more careful about how they use technology in their day-to-day lives. Some even indicated that they are now more likely to change their ...