• April 16, 2014

Surveillance of the movements, activities and communications of the general public becomes oppressive; beyond a certain point, which I will explain, it becomes incompatible with journalism and therefore with democracy.  Legal limits on the state’s use of these massive digital dossiers is inadequate to protect journalism and democracy; rather, we must redesign the world’s digital system so that they do not accumulate digital dossiers about anyone in the absence of specific grounds.