{"id":9033,"date":"2013-07-09T05:03:31","date_gmt":"2013-07-09T05:03:31","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-09T05:03:31","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=9033","title":{"rendered":"Reason.com: The Surveillance State Isn&#8217;t Coming\u2014It&#8217;s Already Here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reason.com: <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/archives\/2013\/07\/03\/the-surveillance-state-isnt-coming-its-h\">The Surveillance State Isn&#8217;t Coming\u2014It&#8217;s Already Here<\/a> \/ The national <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Panopticon\">Panopticon<\/a> is a messy work in progress, but it&#8217;s already in place by J.D. Tuccille:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For weeks, headlines have trumpeted revelations about the National Security Agency&#8217;s tracking of Internet traffic and phone communications and the secretive rubber-stamp court intended to provide us some illusion that our privacy and civil liberties are being respected, but which approves virtually every domestic spy scheme it reviews. It&#8217;s almost&#8230; <em>almost like we live in a surveillance state<\/em>, we stammer as we blink at the brave new world revealed around us. But there&#8217;s no &#8220;almost&#8221; about it; from the CIA spying through local cops, to FBI snooping through driver&#8217;s license databases, to police departments tracking your movements with license-plate scanners, the NSA is only one part of the growing, unfinished, but very real surveillance state that the United States has become.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=9033\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}