Somebody's Watching You Part 1: America's Long History of Spying on Its Own
Who's watching us, what does it mean for our privacy and civil liberties, and how did we get here? In Somebody's Watching You, a three-part investigative series from Civic and the San Francisco Public Press, we explore America's long-running struggle over government surveillance. How did a country founded on protections against government intrusion develop such extensive powers to watch its own people? And what happens to constitutional rights when national security becomes the justification? In Part One, we go back to the nation's founding and the fight to protect individual freedoms from…
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