The Snowden files: why the British public should be worried about #GCHQ | John Lanchester — The Guardian
▻http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/03/edward-snowden-files-john-lanchester
What this adds up to is a new thing in human history: with a couple of clicks of a mouse, an agent of the state can target your home phone, or your mobile, or your email, or your passport number, or any of your credit card numbers, or your address, or any of your log-ins to a web service.
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Google ... know[s] you’re gay before you tell your mum; it knows you’re gay before you do. And now ...[spies] too.
#surveillance #PRISM #NSA #privacy via @zackieachmat