Citizens around the world as well as high officials – including in the United States – have judged the revelation of an unaccountable system of pervasive surveillance to be a public service.
Citizens around the world as well as high officials — including in the United States — have judged the revelation of an unaccountable system of pervasive surveillance to be a public service.
The reasons for the exodus are not hard to fathom: last month, a UN inquiry accused the government of President Isaias Afewerki – who has ruled the east African country since its independence from Ethiopia in 1993 – of operating a system of "ruthless repression" and "pervasive state control".
What matters most is how deeply the whole of the human race has been ensnared in this system of pervasive surveillance.
One believes totally in the way a swaggering and self-assured pair of thugs would prove attractive to the impressionable Ignacio, whose father is unable to protect him from bullying and is himself subject to a system predicated on pervasive forms of oppression.
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What's more, Kamen argues, the Spain of the Inquisition was essentially pre-modern: the Holy Office, as the Inquisition was properly called, depended less on an omnipresent police than on a pervasive system of informers.
In a complex financial system, a pervasive philosophy of "Each for oneself and the devil take the hindmost" is a formula for disaster.
Like Josef K.'s storage room, Facebook has become a dream space of judgment — a place where people you may know only in the most casual way suddenly reveal themselves to be players in a pervasive system of discipline.
Morgenthau highlighted two investigations, publicly announced by his office this past year, that have uncovered "a pervasive system of deceitful and fraudulent practices employed by Iranian entities to move money all over the world without detection".
