Authorities who sounded an alarm for corporate America now publicize their use of tools like wiretaps and confidential informants once reserved for mob kingpins.
"The populace now says, 'Make us feel safer,' and one of the extraordinary things is the Saudis are now publicizing each arrest, each raid," said the American official based in the Middle East.
High school and college students now publicize the most intimate details of their relationships on their MySpace and Facebook pages, so the discovery that a 17-year-old boy had taped a sexual encounter would hardly cause the furor today that Mr. Aguirre-Sacasa imagines it would have two decades ago.
Apple's acquisition is now approved in the U.S. as well, Apple confirmed to TechCrunch, which explains why both companies have now officially publicized their merging on consumer-facing channels.
Even if true and satisfying, these assurances are now being publicized only because this huge data-gathering effort can no longer be denied.
A report on the pro-government Web site Jahan News said that what are now highly publicized show trials of groups of reformists will proceed on an individual basis and behind closed doors.
What was once accessible only by people in the know is now highly publicized.
A case in point involves an exotic new form of charitable giving now being publicized by Howard Winklevoss of Winklevoss Consultants in Greenwich, Conn.
For example, last week, three students were arrested for participating in a now much publicized, videotaped gang rape of an unconscious woman on a Pensacola beach.
The community has quietly flown under the radar of the public for some time now, only being publicized by right wing publication Breitbart, who deemed the movement the "Sexodous," and Info Wars, a website run by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.
