Metadata: Be afraid, be very afraid

‘To be remembered after we are dead,’ wrote Hazlitt, ‘is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.’ Cue President ‘George W’ Obama in the matter of telephone surveillance by his National Security Agency. The fact that for the past seven years the agency has been collecting details of every telephone call placed in the US without a warrant was, he intoned, no reason for Americans to be alarmed. “Nobody is listening to your telephone calls,” he cooed.

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