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
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword by Lewis Lapham; Introduction; Chapter One: Trafficking Imagination in the Streets; Chapter Two: A Whopper, a Coke, and an Order of Spies; Chapter Three: Enemies at Home; Chapter Four: Always Deceptive, Often Illegal; Chapter Five: Spying on Children; Chapter Six: Green Squads; Chapter Seven: Listening in on Lawyers; Chapter Eight: Spying on the Press; Chapter Nine: The Constitutional Cost of Contracting; Chapter Ten: Computers Can't Commit Crimes; Chapter Eleven: Celestial Eyes.
  • Chapter Twelve: Location, Location, LocationChapter Thirteen: Troublemakers Bring Us to Our Senses; Conclusion: Custodians of Democracy; Endnotes; Index; About the Author.

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