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Surveillance Nation
In "Surveillance Nation" (TR April 2003), Dan Farmer and Charles C. Mann write this chilling sentence: "But the rise of omnipresent surveillance will be driven as much by ordinary citizens' understandable-even laudable-desires for security, control, and comfort as by the imperatives of business and government." It is understandable, yes; but in what sense is it laudable?
Daniel Stroock
Cambridge, MA
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