[Distributist Archive] Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? - Why We Should Care about Government Data Mining

If you are anything like me, you will agree that this summer's PRISM/NSA scandal has marked a new low in the history of 21st century digital surveillance. But by far the scariest prospect is that the NSA's attitude towards privacy and data-mining might represent a new normal in how large institutions relate to their customers’ data. True to form, for th…