# Christopher Soghoian: Government surveillance — this is just the beginning

Christopher Soghoian sees the landscape of government surveillance shifting beneath our feet, as an industry grows to support monitoring programs. Through private companies, he says, governments are buying technology with the capacity to break into computers, steal documents and monitor activity — without detection. This TED Fellow gives an unsettling look at what's to come.

- Kind: Talk
- Runtime: 8 min
- By: TED.com
- Genres: Education
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/ChristopherSoghoian_2013U)
- Licence or status: [CC BY-NC-ND 3.0](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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