Patriot Act | Watching America

Iran: Post 9/11 America: Islam and Muslims Still Suspect

Robin Koerner - September 11, 2020. Published in The Tehran Times

Over the interceding years, Americans’ negative attitudes toward, and perceptions of Islam and Muslims has only worsened.

France: No, We Don’t Have a Patriot Act

Robin Koerner - January 13, 2016. Published in Le Monde

Critical minds and opposing voices are playing their role in post-attack France, much more so than they did in America after 9/11. This is rather healthy and somehow reassuring.

France: How the US Government Invented Surveillance

Robin Koerner - August 31, 2015. Published in Contrepoints

If government surveillance has changed its nature by means of technology, it is not really a novelty.

Germany: Germany’s Low Opinion of the US

Robin Koerner - June 24, 2015. Published in Deutsche Welle

Argentina: The New Surveillance in the United States

Robin Koerner - June 19, 2015. Published in Diario de Cuyo

A new law prevents the government from directly collecting phone data from millions of citizens.

Poland: Americans Awoke in a Country That, for the First Time in Nine Years, Was Not Eavesdropping on Them

Robin Koerner - June 18, 2015. Published in Gazeta Wyborcza

Canada: The End of US ‘Bulk Telephony Collection,’ and the Lessons for Canada

Robin Koerner - June 16, 2015. Published in The Globe and Mail

France: A Part of the Patriot Act Is Dead; Surveillance Is Not

Robin Koerner - June 15, 2015. Published in Rue89

Mexico: Edward Snowden’s Difficult Redemption

Robin Koerner - June 12, 2015. Published in El Universal

Canada: A Small Victory

Robin Koerner - June 9, 2015. Published in Le Devoir

Though this new law will partially reduce the NSA’s ability to collect this metadata, it will not significantly hinder the vast majority of the U.S. agency's large-scale surveillance activities.

Mexico: One Stumble After Another

Robin Koerner - June 8, 2015. Published in La Jornada

Germany: Is America’s Surveillance State Coming to an End?

Robin Koerner - May 30, 2015. Published in Handelsblatt

The unfair, unsubstantiated mass surveillance of phones within the USA could soon be removed from the books on the first of June. Of all people, Republican politicians now sound like critics of surveillance. Are these the tides of change?

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