In 1975, explaining an analog age of spying that included phone taps and physical bugging that we would now think about charming, Democratic Senator Frank Church warned of the risks of the info monitoring routine currently growing in the United States. The monitoring power of the federal government and its security companies could, “at any time could be turned around on the American people, and no American would have any privacy left, such is the capability to monitor everything: telephone conversations, telegrams, it doesn’t matter. There would be no place to hide,” he stated.
