Great news: #surveillance works !
“Knowing one’s online activities are subject to government interception and believing these surveillance practices are necessary for national security play important roles in influencing conformist behavior”
▻http://motherboard.vice.com/read/chilling-effect-of-mass-surveillance-is-silencing-dissent-online-s
Now research suggests that widespread awareness of such mass surveillance could undermine democracy by making citizens fearful of voicing dissenting opinions in public.
Under Surveillance: Examining Facebook’s Spiral of Silence Effects in the Wake of NSA Internet Monitoring
▻http://m.jmq.sagepub.com/content/early/2016/02/25/1077699016630255.full.pdf