Pan, pan, psychas.

Part three, further analyses and discussion. Our inquiry question, why are there so many construction

vans outside and why are all the construction workers wearing suits and tinted sunglasses? In our last

instalment, we spoke about the NSA, we spoke about surveillance, capitalism and how these government institutions are using

big data collected by private companies to keep their bead of little eyes and everything

that we're doing. This is a relatively recent development sparked in part by the September

11th attacks, which paved the way for the Patriots Act,

other similar acts across Europe as well, which allow government institutions to monitor big data,

to store large quantities of data and keep it all en masse rather than targeting specific individuals

which they are suspicious of.

A lot of the things that we know about the NSA and the government communications headquarters in the UK

was revealed in 2013 when Whistleblower Edward Snowden disclosed a series of documents to The Guardian.

As Andrew said in our last installment, this included information that the PRISM program for the NSA

had accessed all the servers of the major tech companies, Apple, Google, Microsoft,

had access to all of the phone records and communications across the US and lots of places in Europe too,

including, and quoting here, the US had

spied on the EU offices in New York, Washington and Brussels, as well as the embassies of France,

Greece, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, South Korea and Turkey.

So, Jax mentioned the government communication headquarters, or the GCHQ, which is the British

intelligence and security agency, they were as

guilty as the Americans of mass surveillance. When this news came out, of course, there was just

much of a scandal surrounding this in the UK as there was in the US. Like with the US, the UK took

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