COTS Spytech = Espionage for the Everyman

We live in an increasingly monitored environment, where Google Earth can zoom into your neighbourhood, streetcams broadcast real-time footage of what's going on outside your house and wireless nannycams can covertly capture video from your own living room. Indeed, despite high-profile discussions about abuses by government espionage apparatuses such as the NSA, it is becoming increasingly apparent that for us average Joes, today's surveillance society means that spying is more apt to be done by our co-worker, the opposing team's coach or the store where we shop. (read more)