Simon Chesterman - One Nation Under Surveillance - Print Book

Name: Simon Chesterman - One Nation Under Surveillance - Print Book
Brand: Simon Chesterman

Simon Chesterman

One Nation Under SurveillanceA New Social Contract to Defend Freedom Without Sacrificing Liberty\nAuthor(s): Simon Chesterman\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Oxford University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Oxford University Press\nISBN-13: 9780199580378, 978-0199580378\nSynopsis\nWhat limits, if any, should be placed on a government's efforts to spy on its citizens in the name of national security? Spying on foreigners has long been regarded as an unseemly but necessary enterprise. Spying on one's own citizens in a democracy, by contrast, has historically been subject to various forms of legal and political restraint. For most of the twentieth century these regimes were kept distinct. \n That position is no longer tenable. Modern threats do not respect national borders. Changes in technology make it impractical to distinguish between 'foreign' and 'local' communications. And our culture is progressively reducing the sphere of activity that citizens can reasonably expect to be kept fr.