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The United States has witnessed an explosive expansion of mass surveillance
since the 9/11 attacks. This post-9/11 expansion has built on slavery, colonial
occupation, and longstanding racism, as well as wartime spying and the War on
Drugs. Yet it is also markedly different from what existed before, in both its
technological capacities and its scale and breadth. This report illustrates how
the pervasive fear, Islamophobia and xenophobia, weakened civil liberties
protections, and exponentially increased funding of the post-9/11 era enabled
the unprecedented breadth and scale of surveillance reigning across the United
States today.

The report is as a comprehensive overview of the contemporary surveillance
programs that emerged in the post-9/11 landscape and illustrates their costly
ramifications. These mass surveillance programs allow the U.S. government to
warrantlessly and "incidentally" vacuum up Americans' communications, metadata
and content, and store their information in data centers and repositories such
as the database authorized by Section 702 - a provision up for reauthorization
this year. The report illustrates how federal agencies also increasingly obtain
data from private companies and track Americans using facial recognition, social
media geomapping, and other technologies. These efforts have particularly
impacted Muslims, immigrants, and protesters for racial and labor justice, and
have cost untold dollars, normalized an erosion of privacy and freedom, and
entrenched an expanding surveillance infrastructure that grows ever more
difficult to control.



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