{"id":40718,"date":"2013-06-10T21:27:24","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T20:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/how-much-has-privacy-eroded-since-911-attacks\/40718\/"},"modified":"2013-06-10T22:32:17","modified_gmt":"2013-06-10T21:32:17","slug":"how-much-has-privacy-eroded-since-911-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/war-terrorism\/how-much-has-privacy-eroded-since-911-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"How much has privacy eroded since 9\/11 attacks?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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McClatchy News Service<\/a><\/strong>
\nJune 10, 2013<\/p>\n

Welcome to the new normal, the U.S. national security state that has grown like mad since the 9\/11 terrorist attacks nearly a dozen years ago.<\/p>\n

Personal privacy has shrunk. Government secrecy has grown. Law enforcement intrusions, both overt and covert, are routine.<\/p>\n

And while airport security lines hint at how life changed following Sept. 11, 2001, the full scope and apparent irrevocability of the changes nearly defy description. Street cameras track your movements. Strangers can read your emails. Police can spy on your political gatherings.<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s all become so commonplace that most of the time, like the proverbial frog in a pot of warming water, we take it for granted.<\/p>\n

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\u201cSome of the impacts have been obscured,\u201d Steven Aftergood, director of the Federation of American Scientists\u2019 Project on Government Secrecy, said Friday. \u201cOne could say that personal privacy has been compromised for years, but we are only now becoming aware of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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But even in this new normal, a shock or two can awaken the complacent. That\u2019s what happened this week, in a one-two punch.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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On Wednesday, Britain\u2019s Guardian newspaper revealed that the National Security Agency is collecting telephone records of tens of millions of Verizon customers. On Friday, the Guardian and The Washington Post reported the NSA is tapping directly into the central servers of nine companies including Microsoft, Yahoo, Google and Facebook.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The ensuing uproar provoked President Barack Obama to offer a defense.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cI think it\u2019s important for everybody to understand \u2026 that there are some tradeoffs involved,\u201d Obama said Friday in San Jose, Calif. \u201cYou can\u2019t have 100 percent security and also then have 100 percent privacy and zero inconvenience. You know, we\u2019re going to have to make some choices as a society.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In his first remarks on the pair of surveillance program disclosures, Obama said he welcomes a debate but insisted that the nation must strike an appropriate balance between security and civil liberties.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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