Wired: Surveillance vs. Democracy

This week, Wired’s Richard Stallman published an opinion piece which asks the pertinent question “How Much Surveillance Can Democracy Withstand?” The article discusses the pressing need to design privacy into all our systems to help prevent mass data collection. He warns that data can always be misused and democracy may be in danger if we stay on the current path.

“Surveillance data will always be used for other purposes, even if this is prohibited. Once the data has been accumulated and the state has the possibility of access to it, it may misuse that data in dreadful ways.”

Read the full article here.