American Civil Liberties Union

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• The Surveillance Industrial Complex : How the American Government is Conscripting Businesses and Individuals in the Construction of a Surveillance Society

  14 December 2004
  Acting under the broad mandate of the «war» on terrorism, the U.S. security establishment is making a systematic effort to extend its surveillance capacity by pressing the private sector into service to report on the activities of Americans. These efforts, which are often costly to private businesses, run the gamut from old-fashioned efforts to recruit individuals as eyes and ears for the authorities, to the construction of vast computerized networks that automatically feed the government a steady stream of information about our activities.