History - Past and Perspective
Power Politics and Surveillance

Power Politics and Surveillance

After Julius Caesar was murdered by conspirators in the senate, his successor, Gaius Julius Caesar — known as Augustus — built a surveillance state to consolidate power. ...
Joe Wolverton, II, J.D.
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“We see on the theater of the world a certain number of scenes which succeed each other in endless repetition: where we see the same faults followed regularly by the same misfortunes, we may reasonably think that if we could have known the first we might have avoided the others. The past should enlighten us on the future: knowledge of history is no more than an anticipated experience.”

— Charles Pinot Duclos

Americans work, live, and play under the watchful, never-blinking eye of the federal government’s surveillance apparatus. From the National Security Agency (NSA) to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the full panoply of federal three-letter departments have access to billions of bytes of personal data of every man, woman, and child in this country and abroad.

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