They know everything about you : how data-collecting corporations and snooping government agencies are destroying democracy / Robert Scheer with Sara Beladi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scheer, Robert.

Contributor:

Beladi, Sara.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Privacy, Right of--United States.

Privacy, Right of.

United States.

Democracy--United States.

Democracy.

Data protection--United States.

Data protection.

Electronic surveillance--United States.

Electronic surveillance.

Intelligence service--United States.

Intelligence service.

National security--United States.

National security.

Physical Description:

xiv, 256 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Nation Books, [2015]

Summary:

"In the first week of June 2013, the American people discovered that for a decade, they had abjectly traded their individual privacy for the chimera of national security. The revelation that the federal government has full access to all phone records and the vast trove of presumably private personal data posted on the Internet has brought the threat of a surveillance society to the fore. But the erosion of privacy rights extends far beyond big government. Big business has long played a leading role in the hollowing out of personal freedoms. In this new book, Robert Scheer shows how our most intimate habits, from private correspondence, book pages read, and lists of friends and phone conversations have been seamlessly combined in order to create a detailed map of an individual's social and biological DNA" -- from publisher's web site.

Contents:

Chapter 1 The TED Moment: His Head on a Robot 1

Chapter 2 Cyber Sound Bites 25

Chapter 3 Mad Men Wired 57

Chapter 4 Privacy is Freedom 79

Chapter 5 The Military-Intelligence Complex 103

Chapter 6 A Whistleblower Shall Set Us Free 133

Chapter 7 Foreign Policy: A Tissue of Lies 157

Chapter 8 How the Digital Cookie Crumbles 177.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781568584522

1568584520

OCLC:

873007734