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The Orwellian Re-Branding of 'Mass Surveillance' as Merely 'Bulk Collection'
Greenwald, Glenn
http://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/03/13/orwellian-re-branding-mass-surveillance-merely-bulk-collection/Date Written: 2015-03-13 Publisher: The Intercept Year Published: 2015 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX17405 Just as the Bush administration and the U.S. media re-labelled "torture" with the Orwellian euphemism "enhanced interrogation techniques" to make it more palatable, the governments and media of the Five Eyes surveillance alliance are now attempting to re-brand "mass surveillance" as "bulk collection" in order to make it less menacing (and less illegal). Subject Headings |