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Government

Dec. 8, 2009

Sacrificing for Security

James Rule of UC Berkeley's Center for the Study of Law and Society examines the blurring of boundaries protecting our privacy rights.

By James Rule

Part II: Government Surveillance

From FISA to the Patriot Act: 1978-2001

...Governments do two kinds of things to locate and monitor the governed. One is actively to seek and capture traces of lives like those assembled by Patriot Act investigators-sifting through library records, cell phone logs, medical data, or any number of other far-flung but predictable sources. The second is to create junctures in li...

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