In a country that describes itself as a democracy and the leader of the free world it’s an enormous problem for the government to know more about the people than the people know about what the government’s doing. But since the terrorist attacks of 9/11 a lot of the legal restraints that kept the government in check after a previous era of abuse were relaxed or removed completely in many cases.

This six part documentary series, America’s Surveillance State, dissects the United States’ present surveillance condition. The thesis statement of the series is that privacy as we understand it is an antiquated fantasy – that we need to adjust our way of living to factor in that someone, somewhere is very likely watching our every move for one reason or another.

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