‘It’s not just the powers that be surveilling us’

Sara Pequeño: Why are we just watching America become a surveillance state?

Several years ago, I was boarding a plane to head back to New York City. The woman in front of me was on Facebook Live, detailing a disagreement she’d had with the American Airlines staff to anyone who would watch.

‘It’s not just the powers that be surveilling us’

‘Why are we just watching America become a surveillance state?’Sara Pequeño at USA TodayThere is a “larger issue of mass surveillance becoming mainstream,” says Sara Pequeño. Flock cameras have “recently been in the news for what happens when police officers misuse the technology,” but “faceless corporations aren’t the only ones policing our behavior through mass surveillance.” Americans are “also creating the panopticon among ourselves.” People…