<p>Martin Eiermann is Assistant Executive Editor at The European. Prior to joining the magazine, he studied history and political theory at Harvard University. He currently lives and works in London.
De lo que tenemos que protegernos es de que las lógicas de emergencia se prolonguen a través del tiempo y el espacio, no de la redefinición de la privacidad en sí misma. Português English
We scrutinize the state for its Orwellian ambitions, but not the structures that render them feasible. Privacy debates have engaged with issues of political power and sensationalist culture, with little attention paid to the third factor – the economic context.
The almost exclusive focus on the NSA obscures the degree to which surveillance has become integrated into almost every level of government. For most of us, the first point of contact with the surveillance state isn’t the NSA – it’s the local police department.
Instead of experiencing a proliferation of terrorism, we are witnesses to a proliferation of resistance against the standard economic model of the last sixty years. It’s an endogenous shock, not an exogenous one. The socio-economic contract has been broken.
Private companies and intelligence services have entered an unholy alliance: The former collect vast amounts of private data, the latter scoop it up without much oversight.
