Myacah tapes up her webcam, Christian doesn’t. In some ways, this exemplifies two major attitudes among millennials regarding surveillance -- tin-foil hat paranoia and complete acceptance. How’d we get here? The PATRIOT Act made sweeping changes to civil liberties in response to 9/11 with near-unanimous support from Congress. How did some of parts of this legislation and the fervor around it shape our understandings of privacy and security? More specifically, what does it mean for how Millennials perceive security and privacy after growing up in an age where civil liberties around access to data both developed and transformed?
