Rebecca MacKinnon Quotes
As it turns out, American-made technology had helped Mubarak and his security state collect, compile, and parse vast amounts of data about everyday citizens.
MacKinnon, Rebecca. Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle For Internet Freedom. Basic Books, 2012.
He was the Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
He was the NSA Director when the agency literally captured data on every phone call in the United States and most internet e-mails and other digital communications. It became a national scandal and debate. There was an opposite point of view of intelligence experts. See {637041} and {637042}.
Here is an example of the mental set of NSA regarding electronically capturing information. It is easy to see why the agency got into a position where they were castigated by groups throughout America for the large scale gathering of even Private communications.
to enhance its ability to conduct surveillance
Rebecca MacKinnon is an author, researcher, Internet freedom advocate, and co-founder of the citizen media network Global Voices. She is notable as a former CNN journalist who headed the CNN bureaus in Beijing and later in Tokyo. She is on the Board of Directors of the Committee to Protect Journalists, a founding board member of the Global Network Initiative and is currently director of the Ranking Digital Rights project at the New America Foundation's Open Technology Institute.
