What gives us the right to spy on innocents anywhere abroad without any constraints?
[Eben] Moglen, a professor of law and legal history at Columbia, felt compelled to begin speaking on these subjects due in part to the radical position being taken by the U.S. and allied governments. As he put it, “We are being told that spying on entire societies is normal.”
It is no exaggeration to say that we’ve constructed sufficient infrastructure to gather and store more information on innocents than any government in history, totalitarian or otherwise.
Source: How the U.S. Is Spreading ‘Procedures of Totalitarianism’ – The Atlantic