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Title

The rise of the American corporate security state : six reasons to be afraid / Beatrice Edwards.

Author

Edwards, Beatrice,

Publication

San Francisco, CA : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., [2014]

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Description

xii, 104 pages; 22 cm.

Summary

"In the United States today, our Bill of Rights has been rendered pointless by heavy surveillance of average citizens, political persecution of dissenters, and the threat of indefinite detention now codified into law. Corporations reap handsome profits collecting information for various agencies--70 percent of the US intelligence budget is paid to private contractors. As a result, we now live in a Corporate Security State where the government is more interested in safeguarding the health of the companies who serve it than the citizens who support it. Rise of the American Corporate Security State details the massive amount of information the government is collecting and exposes how far it's willing to go to conceal its activities and punish anyone who dares expose it. Further, the blurring of the boundaries between business and government is enabling corporations to spy on employees and citizens in the name of "cybersecurity" and has hobbled attempts to punish the corporate institutions responsible for the financial collapse of 2008. But Edwards offers a plan for fighting back--steps we can demand to restore transparency to government, keep private information private, and make democracy a reality once again"--

Series Statement

BK currents book

Uniform Title

BK currents book

Subject

• Business and politics > United States
• Corporations > United States
• Electronic surveillance > Political aspects > United States
• Government contractors > United States
• Intelligence service > Contracting out > United States
• Internal security > Political aspects > United States
• National security > Political aspects > United States
• POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / National
• POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Civil Rights
• POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / General
• POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Intelligence
• POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / General
• Privacy, Right of > United States
• Security sector > United States > Evaluation

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Machine generated contents note: PART I: THE NATIONAL SECURITY STATE -- Chapter 1: The Corporate Spy Business: Holding Americans Hostage -- Chapter 2: Official Secrets, Absolute Control -- Chapter 3: The Constitution Ignored; The Bill of Rights Annulled -- Chapter 4: The Espionage Act: Truth is Treason -- PART II -- THE CORPORATE-GOV SECURITY COMPLEX -- Chapter 5: Zombie Law: The Corporate Security Campaign That Will Not Die -- Chapter 6: Savage Capitalism and Justice Deferred: Corporate Crime Unpunished -- Chapter 7: Slow-Walking the Financial Crisis Reforms -- Chapter 8. Reasons to be Afraid: Actions to Take.

ISBN

• 9781626561946 (paperback)
• 162656194X (paperback)

LCCN

^^2014002507

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library