neighbors anduire lovers to betray anybody. --s kind of digital dossier people can spy on all of us through our devices and platforms and networks that we are relying on for pretty much everything in our lives. between aifference dictatorship and a democracy in this delay -- digital age is going to be, do we have control over how information is collected over us? are we able to hold information collectors collectible -- accountable? do we understand who is collecting information and how it is being shared and with whom it is being shared? if there's accountability around that, and this is happening with some consent of the citizenry, then you have a chance of being a democracy. if not, you are going towards a dictatorship pretty fast. on to san francisco in 2006, a whistleblower named mark a former employee of at&t, disclosed that the national security agency had built a secret room in that room building. a communications of millions of ordinary americans were routed through that building and were being siphoned off into the se