The author writes, "As a journalist and author of the No-Nonsense Guide to Global Surveillance, my work is involved in the global industry that is the publicś most frequent, solicited exposure to mass surveillance - journalism. Newspaper agents produce daily digests and reports of news and insights, information and data for global dissemination - a daily feed of surveillance for the publicś consumption. Overall, surveillance encompasses various methods and means of gathering, recording and distributing information - surveillance is the morally inert tool or technology to accrue and apply the necessary data to carry out whatever end is sought, by individuals, companies and governments. Of the many signs that a society is tipping from relative freedom to fascism, from a pluralist democracy to plutocratic police state, is when surveillance stops being the means to an end, and becomes the end in itself, for profit or power. The world has reached an unprecedented point in its development where there is nowhere on Earth that an individual cannot be tracked, identified, and to a greater or lesser degree, controlled - where intelligence agencies, government treaties, commerce and technologies have globalised, cooperated and confluenced in the pursuit of profit and power that no-one is safe. Surveillance has truly become a global state in its own right.