En offentlig hemmelighed: Når sikkerhedspolitik går fra statsmandskunst til allemandseje

New forms of information technology, surveillance and data collection have blurred the boundaries between public and private: increasingly, civil society is mobilized to actively participate in the work of national intelligence agencies. These public-private partnerships invite a host of democratic concerns about questions of responsibility, accountability and ownership. This article explores these questions, arguing that in a world where the boundaries between civil service and public scrutiny - between state bureacracies and the public eye - have effectively disappeared, we need to think about democratic control with intelligence in fundamentally new ways. More specifically, the article concludes, we need an intelligence field that will take the lead in educating civil partners to exercise 'judgement' when handling the dilemmas of security versus democracy.