Title:
Spying on democracy : government surveillance, corporate power, and public resistance
Author:
Publication Date:
2013
Publication Information:
San Francisco : City Lights Publishers, [2013]
©2013.
Physical Description:
349 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
ISBN:
9780872865990
Abstract:
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Trafficking imagination in the streets -- A Whopper, a Coke, and an order of spies -- Enemies at home -- Always deceptive, often illegal -- Spying on children -- Green squads -- Listening in on lawyers -- Spying on the press -- The constitutional cost of contracting -- Computers can't commit crimes -- Celestial eyes -- Location, location, location -- Troublemakers bring us to our senses -- Custodians of democracy.
Language:
English
