PBS Frontline has made available online their program "Spying on the Home Front"
[link]. As a computer systems engineer working in the telecommunications area, I can attest to some of the content in this piece, as some of my work has been in related areas. This is one reason why many young people, and many "technically savvy" folks have become more and more concerned with personal privacy and freedom. From what I've seen, the pervasiveness of digital surveillance goes further than this report would indicate, and that there are significant drivers from both state and private sectors for "pimping out privacy", to coin a phrase.
Take for example the RIAA and MPAA. Recently, a toolkit designed to help universities spy on their students for copyright infringement made news[
1]. Eventually, it was forced offline[
2]. But these could be the more innocuous examples.
The Frontline piece discusses the NSA, and the "illegal" wiretapping act, and the rep…