The Future: six drivers of global change - Part 46
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James Bradford, "The NSA Is Building the Country's Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say)," Wired, March 15, 2012.

241 "began to rapidly turn the United States of America"

Jason Reed, "NSA Whistleblowers: Government Spying on Every Single American," Reuters, July 25, 2012.

242 has intercepted "between 15 and 20 trillion" communications

Bradford, "The NSA Is Building the Country's Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say)."

243 The formal state of emergency

President of the United States, "Notice-Continuation of the National Emergency with Respect to Certain Terrorist Attacks," September 11, 2012.

244 "I think there's really something at a deep level creepy"

Matt Sledge, "Warrantless Electronic Surveillance Surges Under Obama Justice Department," Huffington Post, September 28, 2012.

245 riding a bicycle with a defective "audible bell"

Brief for the Pet.i.tioner in the United States Supreme Court, Albert W. Florence v. Board of Chosen Freeholders of the County of Burlington et al., No. 10-945, http://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/publishing/previewbriefs/Other_Brief_Updates/10-945_pet.i.tioner.authcheckdam.pdf. Justice Stephen Breyer dissented from the strip search decision in a powerful rebuke of the expansive powers granted to law enforcement by the Court's action. See Florence v. Board of Chosen Freeholders, April 2, 2012, http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/11pdf/10-945.pdf.

246 other digital device when he or she reenters the country

Glenn Greenwald, "U.S. Filmmaker Repeatedly Detained at Border," Salon, April 8, 2012, http://www.salon.com/2012/04/08/u_s_filmmaker_repeatedly_detained_at_border/.

247 and no reasonable cause for allowing the search is required

Ibid.

248 whose digital information has been searched and seized

Ibid.

249 "marketing a catalog of 'surveillance fees' "

Eric Lichtblau, "Police Are Using Phone Tracking as a Routine Tool," New York Times, April 1, 2012.

250 plans to sell the data to private investigators, insurers, and others

Julia Angwin and Jennifer Valentino-Devries, "New Tracking Frontier: Your License Plates," Wall Street Journal, October 2, 2012.

251 The market for these technologies has grown

Nicole Perlroth, "Software Meant to Fight Crime Is Used to Spy on Dissidents," New York Times, August 31, 2012.

252 including Iran, Syria, and China

Rebecca MacKinnon, "Internet Freedom Starts at Home," Foreign Policy, April 3, 2012; Cindy Cohn, Trevor Timm, and Jillian C. York, Electronic Frontier Foundation, "Human Rights and Technology Sales: How Corporations Can Avoid a.s.sisting Repressive Regimes," April 2012, https://www.eff.org/doc.u.ment/human-rights-and-technology-sales; Jon Evans, "Selling Software That Kills," TechCrunch, May 26, 2012, http://techcrunch.com/2012/05/26/selling-software-that-kills/.

253 video cameras will become commonplace tools

Francis f.u.kuyama, "Why We All Need a Drone of Our Own," Financial Times, February 24, 2012.

254 sixty-three active drone sites in the U.S.

"Is There a Drone in Your Neighbourhood? Rise of Spy Planes Exposed After FAA Is Forced to Reveal 63 Launch Sites Across U.S.," Daily Mail, April 24, 2012.

255 awareness-even if the device has been turned off

David Kushner, "The Hacker Is Watching," GQ, January 2012.

256 have also been used to monitor the conversations of some suspects

Declan McCullagh, "Court to FBI: No Spying on In-Car Computers," CNET, November 19, 2003, http://news.cnet.com/2100-1029_3-5109435.html. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that this instance of surveillance is illegal.