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Heidi Boghosian on Privatized Security

The CIA, NSA and the Pentagon rely on outside contractors to much of their work, but what if big corporations could use them as well to spy on activists opposed to their actions?   Corporations aren’t bound by the constitution like government agencies and therefore aren’t required to honor the same rules when it comes to surveillance.  How will free speech suffer if corporations can ally themselves with government spy agencies and private security firms to intimate and silence those who questions them?