Mass Surveillance Tactics

Thus, this exposed information from these agencies now had people questioning their own sense of security and privacy. One could argue after this information had been revealed, intelligence and surveillance tactics serve to control and monitor the public without their knowledge. Bauman et al. (2014) discusses how the UN Human Rights Council began discussing this issue in 2013, stating that mass surveillance posed a threat to human rights and a loss of protection of freedom of speech. Certainly, the Snowden case destroyed any of the perceived notions the public had about the operations and practices of security (Bauman et al., 2014).