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The shift we need to stop mass surveillance | Albert Fox Cahn

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We Can Protect Everything That Technology Might Make Possible Tomorrow

As a teenage protester, NYPD camcorders shoved in my face, I saw surveillance as a threat. Today, they increasingly think that surveillance is inevitable and privacy is the fantasy. It had to get this bad for the denial to break and for the public to act. We can protect everything that technology might make possible tomorrow. But only if we ban surveillance abuses today.

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