When is seeing spying?

On the next Your Call we'll talk about the role of surveillance in society today. More than ever, in this age of digital technology, our actions are being viewed, tracked, and recorded -- usually without us even knowing it. A current exhibit at the SFMOMA, called Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera Since 1870 poses questions about the history of seeing and spying. Where are the limits of our civil liberties when it comes to privacy and surveillance? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. It's Your Call with Sandip Roy and you.

Guests:
Lisa Sutcliffe, assistant curator of photography at the SFMOMA

Trevor Paglen, artist, writer, and experimental geographer

Linda Lye, staff attorney with the Northern California ACLU

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Your Call 102908 The Shadow Factory

When you start a secret program to spy on everyone, how can you ever be sure it's been unplugged for good? On the next Your Call we'll be joined by James Bamford, who has done more to pull back the curtain on the ultra-secret National Security Agency than anyone else. Bamford's new book The Shadow Factory recounts how the Bush Administration transformed epic failures by American intelligence agencies into arguments for massively increasing their power. How does the NSA skim the emails, faxes, phone calls and Internet traffic of the entire world? What is the NSA listening to right now? It may be Your Call, with me, Sandip Roy and you.

Guests: James Bamford in DC
Our nation's chronicler of the dark side. He's a regular contributor to the New York Times Magazine, Harpers and his article in Rolling Stone "The Man who Sold the War" won the National Magazine Award for Reporting. Mr. Bamford joins us from DC.

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