The Engineer Who Said No: Dr. Jon Padfield’s Global Rise and His War on the Surveillance State
This is the first in an initial two-part series In April 1997, Jon Padfield — thirty years old, an electrical engineer by training — received a registered letter from General Motors informing him that his position no longer existed. At home, there was a three-month-old daughter. In Indianapolis, Padfield held a seat in the…
