{"id":24258,"date":"2017-06-27T06:54:14","date_gmt":"2017-06-27T11:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=24258"},"modified":"2017-06-27T06:54:14","modified_gmt":"2017-06-27T11:54:14","slug":"the-age-of-no-privacy-the-surveillance-state-shifts-into-high-gear-short","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=24258","title":{"rendered":"The Age of No Privacy: The Surveillance State Shifts Into High Gear [SHORT]"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rutherford.org\/publications_resources\/john_whiteheads_commentary\/the_age_of_no_privacy_the_surveillance_state_shifts_into_high_gear_short\">The Age of No Privacy: The Surveillance State Shifts Into High Gear [SHORT]<\/a><\/h3>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government.\u201d \u2015 William O. Douglas, Supreme Court Justice (1966)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The government has become an expert in finding ways to sidestep what it considers \u201cinconvenient laws\u201d aimed at ensuring accountability and thereby bringing about government transparency and protecting citizen privacy.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, it has mastered the art of stealth maneuvers and end-runs around the Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>It knows all too well how to hide its nefarious, covert, clandestine activities behind the classified language of national security and terrorism. And when that doesn\u2019t suffice, it obfuscates, complicates, stymies or just plain bamboozles the public into remaining in the dark.<\/p>\n<p>Case in point: the National Security Agency (NSA) has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/legal-loopholes-unrestrained-nsa-surveillance-on-americans\/\">diverting \u201cinternet traffic, normally safeguarded by constitutional protections, overseas<\/a> in order to conduct unrestrained data collection on Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s extraordinary rendition all over again, only this time it\u2019s surveillance instead of torture being outsourced.<\/p>\n<p>In much the same way that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2013\/02\/54-countries-rendition\/\">government moved its torture programs overseas<\/a> in order to bypass legal prohibitions against doing so on American soil, it is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/11\/20\/us\/politics\/records-show-email-analysis-continued-after-nsa-program-ended.html\">doing the same thing for its surveillance programs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>By shifting its data storage, collection and surveillance activities outside of the country\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/legal-loopholes-unrestrained-nsa-surveillance-on-americans\/\">a tactic referred to as \u201ctraffic shaping\u201d<\/a> \u2014the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/legal-loopholes-could-let-nsa-surveillance-circumvent-fourth-amendment-researchers-say\/\">government is able to bypass constitutional protections<\/a> against unwarranted searches of Americans\u2019 emails, documents, social networking data, and other cloud-stored data.<\/p>\n<p>The government, however, doesn\u2019t even need to move its programs overseas. It just has to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/legal-loopholes-could-let-nsa-surveillance-circumvent-fourth-amendment-researchers-say\/\">push the data over the border<\/a> in order to \u201c[circumvent] constitutional and statutory safeguards seeking to protect the privacy of Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Age of No Privacy: The Surveillance State Shifts Into High Gear [SHORT] \u201cWe are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government.\u201d \u2015 William O. Douglas, Supreme Court Justice (1966) The government has become an expert in finding ways [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[190,13197,551,577,652,5723,765,827,838],"class_list":["post-24258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-data","tag-john-w-whitehead","tag-national-security-agency","tag-nsa","tag-privacy","tag-rutherford-institute","tag-surveillance","tag-united-states","tag-us-constitution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24259,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24258\/revisions\/24259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}