Spying on Democracy : Government Surveillance, Corporate Power and Public Resistance

Spying on Democracy : Government Surveillance, Corporate Power and Public Resistance / Heidi Boghosian ; foreword by Lewis Lapham.

"Personal information contained in your emails, phone calls, GPS movements and social media is a hot commodity, and corporations are cashing in by mining and selling the data they collect about our private lives. "Spying on Democracy" reveals how the government acquires and uses such...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Boghosian, Heidi (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: San Francisco, CA : City Lights Books, [2013]
Series:Open Media book.
Subjects:
Liberty.
Civil rights > United States.
Privacy, Right of > United States.
Electronic surveillance > United States.
Intelligence service > United States.
National security > United States.
Terrorism > United States > Prevention.
freedom.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > International Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Civil Rights.
LAW > Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Intelligence.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights.
Civil rights
Electronic surveillance
Intelligence service
Liberty
National security
Privacy, Right of
Terrorism > Prevention
United States
Online Access:Click for online access
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Summary:"Personal information contained in your emails, phone calls, GPS movements and social media is a hot commodity, and corporations are cashing in by mining and selling the data they collect about our private lives. "Spying on Democracy" reveals how the government acquires and uses such information to target those individuals and/or groups it deems threatening"--
Physical Description:1 online resource (349 pages) : illustrations, portrait
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780872866034
0872866033
1322542090
9781322542096
Language:Text in English.
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Online resource; title from PDF title page (Wiley, viewed June 5, 2014).

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