America's Surveillance State - Season 1

America's Surveillance State - Season 1

Season 1

Network
Episodes6
DatesOkt. 22, 2014 - Okt. 26, 2014

Episodes

The Surveillance Machine
Season 1Episode 126 min

The Surveillance Machine

With a countless number of cameras placed in the streets, and with much more invisible spying online and on the phone, America is turning into a surveillance state. Chances are that somebody somewhere may be watching what you're doing right now. Perhaps slowly but steadily, the idea of privacy is disappearing.

Okt. 22, 2014
Inside the NSA: How Do They Spy?
Season 1Episode 225 min

Inside the NSA: How Do They Spy?

The tightly guarded NSA Headquarters in Maryland covers more than 325 acres and has more than 30,000 employees with a vast number of buildings. They have a small army to protect them from foreign and domestic enemies, as well as their own fire department and swat team. Yet despite the large amount of space it occupies, the NSA had been created in secret and designed to be invisible.

Okt. 23, 2014
Rise of the Press
Season 1Episode 325 min

Rise of the Press

In a country that describes itself as a democracy and the leader of the free world it's an enormous problem for the government to know more about the people than the people know about what the government's doing. But since the terrorist attacks of 9/11 a lot of the legal restraints that kept the government in check after a previous era of abuse were relaxed or removed completely in many cases.

Okt. 26, 2014
The Surveillance Industrial Complex
Season 1Episode 425 min

The Surveillance Industrial Complex

There is often an invisible but deep connection between high-tech government intelligence service and the corporate world, as well as tensions between the companies, their customers and the government. This connection works on many levels.

Okt. 26, 2014
Inside Threats
Season 1Episode 525 min

Inside Threats

The NSA or National Security Agency was originally set up to keep America safe, but ironically it now seems obsessed with keeping itself safe.

Okt. 26, 2014
The Future
Season 1Episode 625 min

The Future

The war on terror seems almost self-perpetuating along with its insatiable need for endless surveillance, even as the surveillance state is being challenged as never before. There is a political battle over the future of NSA spying with tactics escalating on all sides.

Okt. 26, 2014

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