Beyond Snowden: Privacy, Mass Surveillance, and the Struggle to Reform the NSA

摘要

Timothy H Edgar notes in Beyond Snowden: Privacy, Mass Surveillance, and the Struggle to Reform the NSA that at its height, the Stasi, the former East German state security service, collected intelligence on a scale that 'seems almost quaint in the age of Snowden' (p. 8). He argues that the capabilities of modern signals intelligence organisations, such as the NSA in the US or GCHQ in the UK, are such that they are inevitably in the business of 'mass surveillance' (p. 2).