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Aldrich, Richard J. and Richterova, Daniela (2018) Ambient accountability : intelligence services in Europe and the decline of secrecy. West European Politics, 41 (4). pp. 1003-1024. doi:10.1080/01402382.2017.1415780
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/01402382.2017.1415780
Abstract
In June 2013, Edward Snowden leaked remarkable details of numerous highly-classified surveillance programmes to the Washington Post and the Guardian, sparking an international furore. They revealed widespread collection against European citizens and monitoring of European premiers, notably Angela Merkel. The European media framed this episode around civil liberties, focusing upon ‘the end of privacy’ for the citizen. However, it is the contention of this article that the importance of Snowden era has been misunderstood. We argue that nature of privacy has, in fact, changed relatively slowly over the last decade and instead that these developments denote a ‘crisis of secrecy’. The key issue is not government looking at us - but our increasing ability to look at government, and especially new ways of calling the secret state to account.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | |||||||||
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | |||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | West European Politics | |||||||||
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis | |||||||||
| ISSN: | 0140-2382 | |||||||||
| Official Date: | 15 January 2018 | |||||||||
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| Volume: | 41 | |||||||||
| Number: | 4 | |||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 1003-1024 | |||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1080/01402382.2017.1415780 | |||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | |||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | |||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | |||||||||
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