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@@ -194,7 +194,17 @@ agencies and counterterrorism forces. The tools of mass surveillance that once enabled investigation into crime or terror such as reading messages/emails, listening to calls, tracking location, or analysing metadata (cite?) may no longer be effective, thereby potentially -preventing such investigation to occur. +preventing such investigation to occur. For governments, this is +arguably the result of such heavy surveillance in the first place. +It's clear that knowledge such as the 2013 Snowden leaks had an impact +on the public (cite), and that people are therby more interested in +their privacy and preventing surveillance. The exception to this has +been in China, where the government has unparalleled control over the +flow of information over the internet. This has allowed the filtering +of content, prevention from accessing sites, and the blocking of the +anonymity network Tor which would allow users to circumvent measures +put in place by the government {firewall} (cite for Tor). (research: +would such measures even work in western world?) In addition, the rate of development in unconventional computing methods is increasing rapidly. Effective quantum computing will |