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The role military intelligence has played both internationally and
domestically has greatly increased following modern developments and
continues to rapidly expand.

\section{Surveillance in powerful systems}

A government may get involved in the regular surveillance of its
citizens for many reasons. The interception of communications are
readily visible (inelegant) including the interception of mail in the
American colonies by the British in the years before the American
Revolution. This also included the change and destruction of
information, yet the purpose remains the same as modern surveillance:
to watch over citizens that the ruling authority does not trust or
claims cannot be trusted. Those who wish to monitor modern electronic
communications may suggest that such an operation exists in the
interest of the safety of the public, by stopping crime and terrorism.

\section{The Stasi}

The methods of the Stasi are often described as inducing fear in
citizens.

\section{The present day}

The traditional means by which enforcement authorities may investigate
an individual or organisation is by obtaining permission to do so on
the basis of adequate suspicion of illegal activity. Such a
requirement prevents the unnecessary and ongoing violation of
individual rights that may be considered highly present in societies
around the world, enabled in part or in whole by modern technology.

In a sense, modern technology could have been the ultimate enabler for
privacy. The promise of modern encryption is such that a communication
physically cannot be read by anyone other than the intended recipient,
and the decentralised nature of the internet could mean an escape from
central authorities in our communication such as a governmental postal
service.

\section{The future}

\section{Conclusions}
