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September 17, 2007
ACLU Unveils "Surveillance Society Clock"
The ACLU's dramatizing the growth of "a genuine surveillance society" in the U.S. with its new Surveillance Society Clock which it today set to six minutes before midnight.
The clock's an entertaining visual gimmick, but the occasion of its launch is the release of a new report from the ACLU entitled "Even Bigger, Even Weaker: The Emerging Surveillance Society: Where Are We Now?" The report's a followup to the 2004 report "Bigger Monster, Weaker Chains," (which appears appended to the downloadable PDF at the link above).
It's a brief report -- just 9 pages long on top of the original report's 20 -- and it represents a useful overview. If you've been listening to your jumpy privacy nut friend getting all caffeinated about the latest outrage and getting jaded about his caffeinated outrage, read the report. You might not agree with the parts the ACLU calls "alarming," but you'll get everything the ACLU has found of note -- not just "heard it on the interwebs" huffing -- in one shot.
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