The Rise of the Computer State : the Threat to Our Freedoms, Our Ethics and our Democratic Process.

The Rise of the Computer State is a comprehensive examination of the ways that computers and massive databases are enabling the nation & rsquo;s corporations and law enforcement agencies to steadily erode our privacy and manipulate and control the American people. This book was written in 1983 a...

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Main Author: Burnham, David
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: 2015.
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