26 March 2009

Surveillance via Neighbors

How do I surveille thee?* Let me count the ways...™




It's been 25 years since 1984, 18 years since the fall of the iron curtain, and 8 years since 2001, but we still can't party like it's 1999 because someone might think it's terrorism.

In the US, it's utility and government employees acting as Terrorism Liason Officers (or TLO, because everything sinister needs a TLA):

Official anti-terrorism civilian snoop program to be expanded

In the UK, it could be anyone:

Remixes of the paranoid London police suspect your neighbours posters

Related Posts:
Surveillance via Auto Insurance
Surveillance via Residues on Paper
Surveillance via Mobile Phones
Surveillance via Pizza Delivery
Surveillance via Abandoned DNA
Surveillance via Tire Pressure Monitoring Systems

* with apologies to Elizabeth Barrett Browning