Function creep is what john woodward calls it. Woodward rnis an ex-CIA man, now working for the Rand Corporation, who was one of Ivan Amato's sources for the story on ubiquitousrnsurveillance that begins on page 58 of this issue. Woodward uses thisrncolorful phrase to describe how Information Age surveillance and monitoring systems, built and bought for a benign use, can subtly be shifted to sinister purposes.
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