"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
- Benjamin Franklin
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Stop Watching Us
StopWatching.us (3:26)
Despite previous criminal surveillance under Nixon, we find that today's vastly more powerful technology threatens our civil liberties as never before.
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Surveillance Threatens Freedom
'Hacktivist' Jacob Appelbaum (2:18)
Surveillance threatens the whole concept of a free democracy: it robs citizens of their dignity and journalists of their ability to expose corruption.
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Drone Aerial Video Surveillance
"Wide-Area Persistent Stare' (4:41)
Drones using ARGUS - the world's highest definition camera array - track all vehicle and pedestrian movements over a vast area for any given time period.
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How the Government Tracks You
Fight for the Future (5:24)
The reach of today's vast, open-ended surveillance system allows the government to know where you've been, where you are, and where you're going.
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The NSA Knows Everything!
Hacker Daniel Davis (Tinkernut) (4:58)
An explanation of what data is available to the NSA, how you can be targeted, and what you can do about it; see the follow-up videoclip for more answers.
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