Mass Surveillance Poem by Paul Warren

Mass surveillance of your mobile phone
Can identify key individuals
Is not part of your phone
And is centred in Aalborg, Denmark

For the new knowledge economy
Surveillance Companies run it
It can collect, catalogue and analyse
Millions of people's communication

I can understand in the War against Terror
We need this type of surveillance
Where we need to ensure that
We know the people who are terrorists

But I think that there must be a line
When metadata is important to track
For people with terrorist links
But where is the line here is the question.

© Paul Warren Poetry