Home pagePress CenterIn the Media Thomas Sanderson, deputy director of the CSIS Trans-National Threats Program, had a commentary published with the Economist Debate Series, "Freedom and Its Digital Discontents."
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Thomas Sanderson, deputy director of the CSIS Trans-National Threats Program, had a commentary published with the Economist Debate Series, "Freedom and Its Digital Discontents."
One modern version of that cold-war timepiece is the American Civil Liberties Union’s “surveillance society clock”, which conveys the degree to which the US is trading privacy for security in the post-9/11 world. In his blog “Six ticks till midnight”, a computer scientist, Jeff Jonas, an information-age privacy expert, warns that inevitable and irresistible technologies are leading us (willingly) into a surveillance society. Where will you be when the clock strikes twelve? If security-enabling technologies proceed unchecked by serious debate, good policy and oversight, the likely answer could be “nowhere secret”.
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