"There is little left of democratic life that is 'not' surveilled, and it's not being surveilled equally; it is not the public surveilling big corporations, secretive government agencies and the rest of the public - rather there is a disproportionate flow of information from us - from the public - into organizations that are already very powerful. That permits the elite, the 'surveillance elite', the national security elite of a country to 'lift-off' from its people, to disconnect from its people, to 'predict' its people. Now that's a dangerous situation. What we're dealing with here is not merely the surveillance elite of 'one country' operating alone - but rather, an 'international surveillance elite'"

Julian Assange

Julian Assange - The Spy Files
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