Everybody's a Target in the American Surveillance State

Privacy as we've known it is dead. Rising up out of the desert landscape, the Utah Data Center (UDC)—a $2 billion behemoth designed to house a network of computers, satellites, and phone lines that stretches across the world—is intended to serve as the central hub of the National Security Agency's vast spying infrastructure. Yet, as John Whitehead argues in this week's vodcast, freedom cannot flourish and grow in an age when the physical movements, individual purchases, conversations, and meetings of every citizen are constantly under surveillance.