Evgeny Morozov: ‘Something suspicious’

Evgeny Morozov is an expert on internet and privacy issues, and author of two books, The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom, and To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism .

Morozov has been a visiting scholar at Stanford University and a Schwartz fellow at the New America Foundation.

He is a contributing editor at The New Republic and a columnist for Slate , The New York Times , The Economist , The Wall Street Journal , Financial Times , London Review of Books , and The Times Literary Supplement .

Morozov spoke to Empire about the role of private companies that snoop for the government; how the NSA’s surveillance programmes apply not just to Americans; and why it is so difficult to build accountability into the surveillance operations conducted by private operators.