It’s official. We are living in a surveillance state. This week’s revelations that wave after wave of Verizon call data, and an endless sea of emails and Facebook posts, are all being trawled by government dragnets are shocking but not really surprising. We’ve known for years that the government’s intelligence machinery has invisible means of cultivating and harvesting personal data in service of a war against terror that has taken over not just America‘s foreign policy, but also our inboxes and homepages., writes Suzanne Nossel.

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