This website includes very thoughtful discussions. I first read the interviews contained on the homepage. They really did an excellent job at conveying how data collection tools and security measures increased after 9/11, and these interviews served to outline some of the major players involved in this change.
I then clicked the link to read Robert O'Harrow's book "No Place to Hide." This reading was actually quite shocking. The extent to which one can be followed, tracked, and monitored is astounding. This text arose many questions for which I have not formulated any sort of conclusive opinion to share. But for me, it seems like all of the devices that supposedly make my life so much easier are the same devices that are taking any rights of privacy. But as more and more we come to depend on these technologies, more and more we in a sense submit to the idea of being "monitored". Do we not have the right to in a sense opt out; is this right taken away from us?
At any rate, this reading brought up a lot of very important questions that I think, noting the present state, everyone should at least be considering.
2) TIA and data mining http://www.epic.org/privacy/profiling/tia/
This website provided information regarding the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency's (DARPA) creation of a tracking system called Total Information Awareness (TIA). From what I understood, the system sought to collect as much data or information about people as possible (via multiple sources), and then through algorithms and human analysis, create a database that would be able to aid in the capture of terrorists, but the funding was cut by congress in 2003.
I was not able to access the above video and was not able to locate it on the internet.
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