Privacy International’s Eric King on resisting surveillance.
Spies, of course, have always spied, but the era we live in sees the agencies at their most powerful.
When Britain’s GCHQ was established after the First World War private documents were stored in filing cabinets under lock and key and international phone calls were a thing of the future. Now, private documents are kept in unknown data centres around the world, international communications are conducted daily, and our lives are lived online.
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