Martin Doyle Cartoon: The simple reason why
Martin Doyle Cartoon: The simple reason why

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The main thing a nation loses when subjected to mass surveillance is all its digitised intellectual capital. It's the electronic equivalent of 'picking someone's brains'.
Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_espionage
and
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/09/15/snowden-new-zealand-surveillance/
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