Digital Identity, Widespread Surveillance: The End of Citizen Anonymity
Digital Identity, Widespread Surveillance: The End of Citizen Anonymity
For centuries, privacy was a natural right. People could live their lives without the government knowing everything about them. They could move about without leaving a trace. Think without being watched. Those days are gone—and their end did not come about through a coup d’état, but through a series of small bureaucratic decisions, laws passed at midnight, and technologies deployed in silence.
The 2015 Intelligence Act authorizes the government to conduct surveillance without a judge’s approval, based solely on...