Cultural Writing. Politics. With the United States in the lead, governments around the world are constructing a global surveillance system to monitor their populations. A new "risk management" paradigm is replacing pre-9/11 models: Now all levels of risk are intolerable, and global surveillance is the tactic to eliminate threats before they have a chance to strike. In this disturbing new model, everyone is a suspect, and our everyday lives are continually monitored and assessed for the risk we present to the State. An invaluable primer for everyone concerned with the future of their privacy and the limits of government control.