How Liberation Became Surveillance

How Liberation Became Surveillance
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My email to a friend went unanswered for an unusually long time, so I texted and called. It turns out that his office recently blocked all personal email on his work machine. No normal email sites can be accessed, and certainly no applications with direct messages. Only one thing is now allowed on work machines: work-related matter, exclusively. You can check your phone during lunch but otherwise office culture discourages that. Anyone sneaking a peek at a phone comes under suspicion.

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Jeffrey A. Tucker
Jeffrey A. Tucker
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Jeffrey A. Tucker is the founder and president of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press, as well as 10 books in five languages, most recently “Liberty or Lockdown.” He is also the editor of “The Best of Ludwig von Mises.” He writes a daily column on economics for The Epoch Times and speaks widely on the topics of economics, technology, social philosophy, and culture. He can be reached at [email protected]