Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Why NSA Surveillance Will Be More Damaging Than You Think - James Fallows - The Atlantic

Why NSA Surveillance Will Be More Damaging Than You Think - James Fallows - The Atlantic

This column over the weekend, by the British academic John Naughton in the Guardian, takes us one more step in assessing the damage to American interests in the broadest sense-- commercial, strategic, ideological - from the panopticon approach to "security" brought to us by NSA-style monitoring programs.
Naughton's essay doesn't technically tell us anything new. For instance, see earlier reports like this, this, and this. But it does sharpen the focus in a useful way. Whoever wrote the headline and especially the subhead did a great job of capturing the gist:

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