Goodspeed Analysis: The Arab Spring may have helped usher in a new era of government surveillance

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Goodspeed Analysis: The Arab Spring may have helped usher in a new era of government surveillance

28 Apr 2012

Details: Written by National Post; Hits: 459

Last year’s Arab Spring saw repressive regimes toppled by protesters, who were organized via Twitter and Facebook and used mobile phones and the Internet to ignite revolutions.

New technology apparently shifted the balance of power in favour of the world’s repressed.

But history can be deceptive. READ ON