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Imagine living in East Germany or North Korea where every move is being watched, that's what we're moving toward

Even if the data monitoring that the NSA is doing today is relatively benign (and we don't yet know that to be true and shouldn't assume it), there is no promise that it will stay that way tomorrow. The half of Americans that appear to be OK with what is happening should consider what it would be like if these tools were used for more blatant suppresion.

The Lives of Others
In 1984 East Berlin, an agent of the secret police, conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover, finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed by their lives.

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