Orwell 2011: Towards a Pervasive "Surveillance State" in America By Tom Burghardt

Orwell 2011: Towards a Pervasive "Surveillance State" in America Biometrics, Facial Mapping, "Computer-Aided ID".... By Tom Burghardt

URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=23992

Global Research, March 28, 2011

Antifascist Calling...

Not since AT&T whistleblower Marc Klein's 2006 revelations that U.S. telecommunications giants were secretly collaborating with the government to spy on Americans, has a story driven home the point that we are confronted by a daunting set of invisible enemies: the security and intelligence firms constellating the dark skies of the National Security State. As echoes from last month's disclosures by the cyber-guerrilla collective Anonymous continue to reverberate, leaked HBGary emails and documents are providing tantalizing insight into just how little daylight there is between private companies and the government. The latest front in the ongoing war against civil liberties and privacy rights is the Pentagon's interest in "persona management software." A euphemism for a suite of high-tech tools that equip an operative--military or corporate, take your pick--with multiple avatars or sock puppets, our latter day shadow warriors hope to achieve a leg up on their opponents in the "war of ideas" through stealthy propaganda campaigns rebranded as "information operations." A Pervasive Surveillance State

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