Research Catalog

Title

Spying on democracy : government surveillance, corporate power, and public resistance / Heidi Boghosian ; [foreword by] Lewis Lapham.

Author

Boghosian, Heidi

Publication

San Francisco : City Lights Publishers, [2013]

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Description

349 pages : illustrations; 18 cm.

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"--

Series Statement

Open media series

Uniform Title

Open Media book.

Subject

• Civil rights > United States
• Electronic surveillance > United States
• Intelligence service > United States
• LAW / Civil Rights
• Liberty
• National security > United States
• POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Civil Rights
• POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Intelligence
• POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / International Security
• Privacy, Right of > United States
• Terrorism > United States > Prevention

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

• 9780872865990 (pbk.)
• 0872865991 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2013020347

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library