Cradle of Surveillance
... on how to draw a line between lawful data collection and its illegal misuse. Until Edward Snowden blew the whistle and in June 2013 released a huge amount of classified data that had been collected by the U.S. NSA and was stored in a program called PRISM, this dispute was more or less frozen. First came the terrorist attack in New York in 2001, to which the Bush administration responded by launching a gigantic counter terrorism initiative (known as the “ War on terror ”, it has now been ...