Our government should not be spying on the electronic communications of American citizens. Nor should our iPhones or Android devices be subject to unreasonable searches and seizures.
The Obama administration says we only destroy the privacy of non-Americans. That is not true. The government is spying on Americans.
We are moving rapidly into a world in which the spying machinery is built into every object we encounter.
It's tempting to dismiss the debate about the National Security Agency spying on Americans as a technical conflict about procedural rights.
There's not a single flashlight app that's not spying on you right now.
Spying is a like a game of chess: Sometimes you have to withdraw, sometimes you have to sacrifice one of your pieces to win - preferably a knight rather than a king or queen.
We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage.
Easy spying is supposed to nab bad guys, but what happens when the small cabal of desperate men who head the security state see the future president as the bad guy?
Spying on the prime minister of Israel and Congress has nothing to do with national security - only politics.
I'm sure, in real life, spying is boring - there's probably a lot of sitting around and plenty of paperwork. But the world seems to think that spying is exciting, and that's how movies get made.
