With cameras positioned on every street corner and much more invisible spying online and on the phone, we live in what can be called Unite States of Surveillance. Anyone paying attention knows that privacy is dead. All of this is not happening by accident – well-funded powerful agencies and companies are engaged in the business of keeping tabs on what we do, what we say, and what we think.

With cameras positioned on every street corner and much more invisible spying online and on the phone, we live in what can be called Unite States of Surveillance. Anyone paying attention knows that privacy is dead. All of this is not happening by accident – well-funded powerful agencies and companies are engaged in the business of keeping tabs on what we do, what we say, and what we think.

At the centre of this mass surveillance apparatus is the National Security Agency, NSA. With a range of interviews with experts, whistle-blowers and activists this program will examine the scope and scale at which mass surveillance is conducted in the US.