www/philosophy surveillance-vs-democracy.html

[Richard M. Stallman]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Richard M. Stallman <rms>       15/07/16 14:27:16

Modified files:
        philosophy     : surveillance-vs-democracy.html 

Log message:
        Minor clarifications and improvements.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.32&r2=1.33

Patches:
Index: surveillance-vs-democracy.html
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--- surveillance-vs-democracy.html      21 Jun 2015 14:26:11 -0000      1.32
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@@ -97,8 +97,8 @@
 &ldquo;espionage,&rdquo; finding the &ldquo;spy&rdquo; will provide an
 excuse to access the accumulated material.</p>
 
-<p>The state's surveillance staff will misuse the data for personal
-reasons too.  Some NSA
+<p>In addition, the state's surveillance staff will misuse the data for
+personal reasons.  Some NSA
 agents <a 
href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/24/nsa-analysts-abused-surveillance-systems";>used
 U.S. surveillance systems to track their lovers</a>&mdash;past,
 present, or wished-for&mdash;in a practice called
@@ -119,11 +119,15 @@
 US </a>.</p>
 
 <p>Personal data collected by the state is also likely to be obtained
-by crackers that break the security of the servers, even
+by outside crackers that break the security of the servers, even
 by <a 
href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150612/16334231330/second-opm-hack-revealed-even-worse-than-first.shtml";>crackers
 working for hostile states</a>.</p>
 
-<p>Total surveillance plus weak legal protections enable the state to
+<p>Governments can easily use massive surveillance capability
+to <a 
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/22/world/europe/macedonia-government-is-blamed-for-wiretapping-scandal.html";>subvert
+democracy directly</a>.</p>
+
+<p>Total surveillance accessible to the state enables the state to
 launch a massive fishing expedition against any person.  To make
 journalism and democracy safe, we must limit the accumulation of data
 that is easily accessible to the state.</p>
@@ -146,7 +150,7 @@
 
 <p>Meanwhile, demagogues will cite the usual excuses as grounds for
 total surveillance; any terrorist attack, even one that kills just a
-handful of people, will give them an opportunity.</p>
+handful of people, can be hyped to provide an opportunity.</p>
 
 <p>If limits on access to the data are set aside, it will be as if
 they had never existed: years worth of dossiers would suddenly become
@@ -510,7 +514,7 @@
 
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