One nation under surveillance : a new social contract to defend freedom without sacrificing liberty / Simon Chesterman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chesterman, Simon.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Electronic surveillance--Social aspects.

Electronic surveillance.

Intelligence service--Social aspects.

Intelligence service.

National security.

National security--Social aspects.

Liberty.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (310 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

What limits, if any, should be placed on a government's efforts to spy on its citizens in the name of national security? Spying on foreigners has long been regarded as an unseemly but necessary enterprise. Spying on one's own citizens in a democracy, by contrast, has historically been subject to various forms of legal and political restraint. For most of the twentieth century these regimes were kept distinct. That position is no longer tenable. Modern threats do not respect national borders. Changes in technology make it impractical to distinguish between 'foreign' and 'local' communications.

Contents:

Contents; Abbreviations; Introduction: The End of Privacy; PART I. THEORY; PART II. PRACTICE; PART III. CHANGE; Select Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-284) and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-283-34839-X

9786613348395

0-19-161293-6

OCLC:

756484814