Why Bernard Keane's Surveillance will have you watching your back and your data

By Karen Hardy
Updated September 10 2015 - 10:13am, first published August 29 2015 - 11:45pm
Bernard Keane: "Pretty much everything in the book can be linked to something that has happened in recent years." Photo: Jay Cronan
Bernard Keane: "Pretty much everything in the book can be linked to something that has happened in recent years." Photo: Jay Cronan

Bernard Keane has just come back from speaking at a conference about information security. He was posing the question: have we lost the war on the internet? He spoke about how the biggest threat to connectedness has always been governments, and how Australia is following the path of   the US and Britain in attacking online freedom.