Summary: On today’s special episode of Loud & Clear, host Brian Becker talks about the creation of a surveillance state in the U.S. and what can be done to fight back.<br><br>Becker is joined for the full hour by Declan McCullagh, a technology journalist and CEO of Recent, as well as Bryan Ford, an associate professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.<br><br>McCullagh and Ford analyze the Apple vs. FBI case, the importance of Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, and other whisleblowers, the government’s data collection program, how terrorism is used as a pretext to and a range of other issues related to cyber security and privacy.
