If you are reading
this on the 11 Feb you will notice a banner on this blog. Today is an
international day of protest against aggressive over-the-top
surveillance in our lives. It called:
While
mass-surveillance in the U.S. came to the worlds attention last year
by whistle-blower Edward Snowden's leak of the NSA's
government-commercial surveillance ventures including xKeyscore,
PRISM and Tempora, they are not alone. Canada watches your wifi,
Australia is about to micro-chip babies and the U.K. has the British
National Identity Database. Many more countries do the same.
Mass surveillance
has become a global phenomenon. A fashionable pastime for governments
in much the same way that the militarising of the police has become
fashionable since 9/11.
Intelligence
agencies and spies are an unfortunate, but necessary part of a
governments toolbox. But because of their access to government and
their secretive nature they must be closely controlled and monitored.
Organisations and
concepts constantly move through points of balance and extremes. The
global mass surveillance pendulum has swung the intelligence world
into the extreme and it is up to us, the people, to bring it back to
balance.
Today we make a
stand in protest against the extremes of mass surveillance. Join us
and sign the petition to stop the abuse of over-surveillance on the
people. Take a stand again the NSA's surveillance program and make an example for the world to see.
