Watching your every move: comprehensive government database and new invasive technologies threaten our system of checks and balances, presenting an unprecedented potential for tyranny. (Cover Story: On the Home Front).

There is no place to run and no place to hide in the 1998 techno-thriller, Enemy of the State, where Robert Dean (played by Will Smith) is an innocent everyman framed for murder. The man who has framed him is a sinister top official with the National Security Agency (played by Jon Voight). Faster than you can say "Resistance is futile," Voight's character has the awesome technology of the near-total surveillance state targeting the hapless fugitive, as teams of NSA agents relentlessly pursue. Supercomputers, data banks, sensors, transmitters, microphones, bugs, surveillance cameras, satellites, helicopters, planes, vans, informants, and a nonstop torrent of technological ...