The End Of Privacy And The Rise Of Surveillance Power

A brilliant is on the Economist site that really helps take the debate about what just happened to Dave Weigel - and about Internet privacy altogether - to the next level. The gap between our public and private selves is simply part of human nature; but when that discrepancy can be proven, and when "journalists" seek to exploit that discrepancy by publishing examples of a journalist thinking in private, then it's more about power than transparency or morality. Money quote:

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