I grew up in Western Europe in the 1980s My teenage years were marked by the cold war between the United States and the Soviet Union collapsed now. We learned that the West was freedom, and that the East was oppression. Presumably, the East taught the opposite in their respective years of adolescence. But when the West did he become the enemy they painted?
It is difficult to communicate how pervasive the threat of nuclear war was. Basically, we can say that we who grew up in the 1980s do not expect to grow old. In this period of polarization and belligerence, identify with your local team was more important than ever. In retrospect, it was a false sense of freedom that gave us - the mass surveillance began with the ECHELON and similar programs in the mid-1970s -. But it was nevertheless a very strong sense of freedom
So the only thing that remained strong with us through the threat of nuclear war and total annihilation was our sense of identity. We are not the . And the , they were those who were suspicious of their own citizens. Who read their mail. Who listened to their phonecalls. The Eastern bloc. And this behavior was particularly personified by East Germany Stasi on Ministerium für Staatssicherheit , and to some extent, by the Soviet KGB .
One thing that strikes you is the enormous cost of the unit is monitoring machine in the 1970s and -80s. It has been estimated that half a million people were employed directly or indirectly by Stasi , which was in East Germany, which had 16 million people. In other words, about 1 in 15 people of working age were just working with this branch of internal monitoring. The cost to the national economy to enforce such a domestic monster must have been positively huge by any measure.
However, when talking to monitoring hawks today, many of them bring out the argument that this technology is available, and that those who have nothing to hide not have to fear anything. (This is a completely dishonest argument itself.) They tend to tell you that all our calls and communication logs files are stored temporarily anyway, so why should they not be available for national security and application of the law? The underlying logic here is cold :. "It's cheap, so therefore, we should do this"
Throughout my teenage years, I was taught that freedom and privacy are issues of principle. And now these vital liberties are discarded unceremoniously now it is jordan enough to do it? was it ever a matter of freedom, just a matter of price
Privacy remains your own responsibility
PS:. the translation of the name of Stasi , the Ministerium für Staatssicherheit would be National Security Agency .
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