Britain's Digital Reformation
There are striking parallels between state survelliance in the Tudor age and today.
It is clear that in much of the developed world we are living in a period of widespread and intensive personal surveillance. The ‘Wikileaks’ revelations and the secret documentation made public by the exiled whistleblower Edward Snowden have shown the extent to which the US National Security Agency (NSA) and the British Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) have been routinely intercepting and analysing much of the world’s telephone and Internet communications. This involves searching for key words suggestive of terrorist or criminal activities or determining the links between suspected terrorists and criminals.
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