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<title>How Much Surveillance Can Democracy Withstand?
- GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title>
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@@ -17,7 +18,7 @@
<h2 class="center">How Much Surveillance Can Democracy Withstand?</h2>
<address class="byline center">by
-<a href="http://www.stallman.org/";>Richard Stallman</a></address>
+<a href="https://www.stallman.org/";>Richard Stallman</a></address>
<!-- rms: I deleted the link because of Wired's announced
anti-ad-block system -->
@@ -70,14 +71,14 @@
can't trust nonfree software; the NSA
<a
href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130622044225/http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/open-enterprise/2013/06/how-can-any-company-ever-trust-microsoft-again/index.htm";>uses</a>
and
-even <a
href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/05/nsa-gchq-encryption-codes-security";>creates</a>
+even <a
href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/05/nsa-gchq-encryption-codes-security";>creates</a>
security weaknesses in nonfree software to invade our own computers
and routers. Free software gives us control of our own computers,
-but <a href="http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/10/149481/";>that won't
+but <a href="https://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/10/149481/";>that won't
protect our privacy once we set foot on the Internet</a>.</p>
<p><a
-href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/10/nsa-surveillance-patriot-act-author-bill";>Bipartisan
+href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/10/nsa-surveillance-patriot-act-author-bill";>Bipartisan
legislation to “curtail the domestic surveillance
powers”</a> in the U.S. is being drawn up, but it relies on
limiting the government's use of our virtual dossiers. That won't
@@ -97,22 +98,22 @@
<p>An unnamed U.S. government official ominously told journalists in
2011 that
-the <a
href="http://www.rcfp.org/browse-media-law-resources/news-media-law/news-media-and-law-summer-2011/lessons-wye-river";>U.S.
would
+the <a
href="https://www.rcfp.org/journals/news-media-and-law-summer-2011/lessons-wye-river/";>U.S.
would
not subpoena reporters because “We know who you're talking
to.”</a>
-Sometimes <a
href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/sep/24/yemen-leak-sachtleben-guilty-associated-press";>journalists'
+Sometimes <a
href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/sep/24/yemen-leak-sachtleben-guilty-associated-press";>journalists'
phone call records are subpoenaed</a> to find this out, but Snowden
has shown us that in effect they subpoena all the phone call records
of everyone in the U.S., all the
time, <a
href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/jun/06/verizon-telephone-data-court-order";>from
Verizon</a>
-and <a
href="http://www.marketwatch.com/story/nsa-data-mining-digs-into-networks-beyond-verizon-2013-06-07";>from
+and <a
href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/nsa-data-mining-digs-into-networks-beyond-verizon-2013-06-07";>from
other companies too</a>.</p>
<p>Opposition and dissident activities need to keep secrets from
states that are willing to play dirty tricks on them. The ACLU has
demonstrated the U.S. government's <a
-href="http://www.aclu.org/files/assets/Spyfiles_2_0.pdf";>systematic
+href="https://www.aclu.org/files/assets/Spyfiles_2_0.pdf";>systematic
practice of infiltrating peaceful dissident groups</a> on the pretext
that there might be terrorists among them. The point at which
surveillance is too much is the point at which the state can find who
@@ -128,7 +129,7 @@
accumulated data. That sounds nice, but it won't fix the problem, not
even slightly, even supposing that the government obeys the rules.
(The NSA has misled the FISA court, which said it
-was <a href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/09/nsa-violations/";>unable
+was <a href="https://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/09/nsa-violations/";>unable
to effectively hold the NSA accountable</a>.) Suspicion of a crime
will be grounds for access, so once a whistleblower is accused of
“espionage,” finding the “spy” will provide an
@@ -144,7 +145,7 @@
<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
+agents <a
href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/24/nsa-analysts-abused-surveillance-systems";>used
U.S. surveillance systems to track their lovers</a>—past,
present, or wished-for—in a practice called
“LOVEINT.” The NSA says it has caught and punished this a
@@ -157,7 +158,7 @@
with <a
href="https://theyarewatching.org/issues/risks-increase-once-data-shared";>new
digital systems</a>. In 2016, a prosecutor was accused of forging
judges' signatures to get authorization
-to <a
href="http://gizmodo.com/government-officials-cant-stop-spying-on-their-crushes-1789490933";>
+to <a
href="https://gizmodo.com/government-officials-cant-stop-spying-on-their-crushes-1789490933";>
wiretap someone who was the object of a romantic obsession</a>. The AP
knows
of <a href="https://apnews.com/699236946e3140659fff8a2362e16f43";>many
@@ -171,7 +172,7 @@
from <a
href="http://falkvinge.net/2012/03/17/collected-personal-data-will-always-be-used-against-the-citizens/";>Europe</a>,
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_American_internment";>the
US</a>, and most
-recently <a
href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/terrifying-how-a-single-line-of-computer-code-put-thousands-of-innocent-turks-in-jail-1.4495021";>Turkey</a>.
+recently <a
href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/terrifying-how-a-single-line-of-computer-code-put-thousands-of-innocent-turks-in-jail-1.4495021";>Turkey</a>.
(Turkey's confusion about who had really used the Bylock program only
exacerbated the basic deliberate injustice of arbitrarily punishing
people for having used it.)
@@ -183,7 +184,7 @@
working for hostile states</a>.</p>
<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
+to <a
href="https://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
@@ -207,7 +208,7 @@
<p>However, such legal protections are precarious: as recent history
shows, they can be repealed (as in the FISA Amendments Act),
suspended, or <a
-href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/16/us/16nsa.html";>ignored</a>.</p>
+href="https://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/16/us/16nsa.html";>ignored</a>.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, demagogues will cite the usual excuses as grounds for
total surveillance; any terrorist attack, even one that kills just a
@@ -250,7 +251,7 @@
pertinent data to the company's server.</p>
<p>Protect your friends' and acquaintances' privacy,
-too. <a
href="http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/21/in-cybersecurity-sometimes-the-weakest-link-is-a-family-member/";>Don't
+too. <a
href="https://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/21/in-cybersecurity-sometimes-the-weakest-link-is-a-family-member/";>Don't
give out their personal information</a> except how to contact them,
and never give any web site your list of email or phone contacts.
Don't tell a company such as Facebook anything about your friends that
@@ -343,10 +344,10 @@
systematically available to the state.</p>
<p>The NSA, through PRISM,
-has <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/08/23-2";>gotten
+has <a
href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2013/08/23/latest-docs-show-financial-ties-between-nsa-and-internet-companies";>gotten
into the databases of many large Internet corporations</a>. AT&T
has saved all its phone call records since 1987
-and <a
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/02/us/drug-agents-use-vast-phone-trove-eclipsing-nsas.html?_r=0";>makes
+and <a
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/02/us/drug-agents-use-vast-phone-trove-eclipsing-nsas.html?_r=0";>makes
them available to the DEA</a> to search on request. Strictly
speaking, the U.S. government does not possess that data, but in
practical terms it may as well possess it. Some companies are praised
@@ -376,17 +377,17 @@
<p>We could correct both problems by adopting a system of anonymous
payments—anonymous for the payer, that is. (We don't want to
help the payee dodge
-taxes.) <a
href="http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/05/lets-cut-through-the-bitcoin-hype/";>Bitcoin
+taxes.) <a
href="https://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/05/lets-cut-through-the-bitcoin-hype/";>Bitcoin
is not anonymous</a>, though there are efforts to develop ways to pay
anonymously with Bitcoin. However, technology
-for <a href="http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.12/emoney_pr.html";>digital
+for <a href="https://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.12/emoney_pr.html";>digital
cash was first developed in the 1980s</a>; the GNU software for doing
-this is called <a href="http://taler.net/";>GNU Taler</a>. Now we need
+this is called <a href="https://taler.net/";>GNU Taler</a>. Now we need
only suitable business arrangements, and for the state not to obstruct
them.</p>
<p>Another possible method for anonymous payments would
-use <a
href="https://stallman.org/articles/anonymous-payments-thru-phones.html";>prepaid
+use <a href="/philosophy/phone-anonymous-payment.html">prepaid
phone cards</a>. It is less convenient, but very easy to
implement.</p>
@@ -463,10 +464,10 @@
<p>Internet service providers and telephone companies keep extensive
data on their users' contacts (browsing, phone calls, etc). With
mobile phones, they
-also <a
href="http://www.zeit.de/digital/datenschutz/2011-03/data-protection-malte-spitz";>record
+also <a
href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210312235125/http://www.zeit.de/digital/datenschutz/2011-03/data-protection-malte-spitz";>record
the user's physical location</a>. They keep these dossiers for a long
time: over 30 years, in the case of AT&T. Soon they will
-even <a
href="http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/10/the-trojan-horse-of-the-latest-iphone-with-the-m7-coprocessor-we-all-become-qs-activity-trackers/";>record
+even <a
href="https://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/10/the-trojan-horse-of-the-latest-iphone-with-the-m7-coprocessor-we-all-become-qs-activity-trackers/";>record
the user's body activities</a>. It appears that
the <a
href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security-technology-and-liberty/it-sure-sounds-nsa-tracking-your-location";>NSA
collects cell phone location data</a> in bulk.</p>
@@ -479,7 +480,7 @@
<p>This solution is not entirely satisfactory, because it won't
physically stop the government from collecting all the information
immediately as it is generated—which is what
-the <a
href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/06/nsa-phone-records-verizon-court-order";>U.S.
does
+the <a
href="https://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/06/nsa-phone-records-verizon-court-order";>U.S.
does
with some or all phone companies</a>. We would have to rely on
prohibiting that by law. However, that would be better than the
current situation, where the relevant law (the PAT RIOT Act) does not
@@ -520,7 +521,7 @@
photographers</a>.)
One city in California that required police to wear video cameras all
the time
-found <a
href="http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/08/ubiquitous-surveillance-police-edition";>their
+found <a
href="https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/08/ubiquitous-surveillance-police-edition";>their
use of force fell by 60%</a>. The ACLU is in favor of this.</p>
<p><a
@@ -528,7 +529,7 @@
are not people, and not entitled to human rights</a>. It is
legitimate to require businesses to publish the details of processes
that might cause chemical, biological, nuclear, fiscal, computational
-(e.g., <a href="http://DefectiveByDesign.org";>DRM</a>) or political
+(e.g., <a href="https://DefectiveByDesign.org";>DRM</a>) or political
(e.g., lobbying) hazards to society, to whatever level is needed for
public well-being. The danger of these operations (consider the BP
oil spill, the Fukushima meltdowns, and the 2008 fiscal crisis) dwarfs
@@ -573,7 +574,7 @@
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@@ -628,7 +629,7 @@
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