for freedom. Flickr/Ashiful Haque. Some rights reserved.It looks like an ironic twist in history: liberal democracies at the beginning of the twenty first century seem to emulate imploded communist dictatorships of the second half of the twentieth century in their surveillance and control practices.
The rapid development and wide availability of technologies, such as telecommunication data mining technologies, profiling and predictive analytics, biometric identification and pattern recognition, location tracking technologies, as well as surveillance in the form of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and closed-circuit television (CCTV), has obviously increased the propensity of state agencies to make use of them.
