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This chapter shows how legal change is being driven by this thrust toward the development of new surveillance technologies, even when there are low tech solutions to matters of national security. Accordingly, the chapter advocates greater attention to conventional investigative methods such as informants, community tips, and routine law enforcement, and the use of mass surveillance technologies constrained by conventional investigative methods, and court warrants pursuant to the Fourth Amendment. It also advocates the use of meta-technologies to stay the tendency of the Technological Imperative to undermine privacy, freedom, and dignity.
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K. A. Taipale, “Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Modernization: Reconciling Signals Intelligence Activity with Targeted Wiretapping” Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Hearing on The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Modernization Act of 2007, May 1, 2007. Accessed on June 19, 2014 from http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/2007_hr/050107taipale.pdf
Elliot D. Cohen, Mass Surveillance and State Control: The Total Information Awareness Project. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010, pp. 68–9.
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Cohen, E.D. (2014). The Technological Imperative. In: Technology of Oppression: Preserving Freedom and Dignity in an Age of Mass, Warrantless Surveillance. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137408211_8
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