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Jeremy Bransten
"In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, governments around the world realized they needed to know a great deal more about global terror networks. This included how terrorist groups communicate, how they obtain funding, and how they recruit new members. The result has been a surge of government-sponsored initiatives to give security services more abilities to track phone and Internet usage, follow financial transfers, and confirm people’s identities. Often these programs affect ordinary citizens and, increasingly in the West, there is concern they may threaten key civil liberties such as the right to privacy."
