Spread of Mass Surveillance Since 1995

* The Spread of Mass Surveillance, 1995 to Present. By Nadiya Kostyuk and Muzammil M. Hussain. Center for Political Studies (CPS) Blog, 2017

URL = http://cpsblog.isr.umich.edu/?p=2129

Summary

"By closely investigating all known cases of state-backed cross-sector surveillance collaborations, our findings demonstrate that the deployment of mass surveillance systems by states has been globally increasing throughout the last twenty years (Figure 1). More importantly, from 2006-2010 to present, states have uniformly doubled their surveillance investments compared with the previous decade."