| Description |
349 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm. |
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text rdacontent |
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unmediated rdamedia |
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volume rdacarrier |
| Series |
Open media series |
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Open Media book.
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| 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"-- 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. |
| Subject |
Liberty.
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Civil rights -- United States.
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Privacy, Right of -- United States.
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Electronic surveillance -- United States.
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Intelligence service -- United States.
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National security -- United States.
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Terrorism -- United States -- Prevention.
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| ISBN |
9780872865990 (pbk.) |
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0872865991 (pbk.) |
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