Surveillance in America : an encyclopedia of history, politics, and the law / Pam Dixon, consulting editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dixon, Pam, 1960-

Series:

Gale eBooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Electronic surveillance--Law and legislation--United States.

Electronic surveillance.

Privacy, Right of--United States--History.

Privacy, Right of.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (2 volumes (xxxiii, 744 pages)) : illustrations, portraits

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024

Place of Publication:

Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, 2016.

System Details:

text file HTML

Summary:

"Government surveillance as an issue exploded into modern consciousness with the revelations that Edward Snowden made about the activities of the National Security Agency in 2013. But government surveillance is actually an old issue with a long and tangled history reaching back through generations. The competing interests involved in government surveillance create deeply opposing tensions that never seem to get fully resolved or go away. Government wants to surveil in secrecy to protect home and country, and those being governed for their part want to be safe and protected. But individuals also want to have autonomy, privacy, and freedom from unfair intrusions or other abuses of government power. The nuanced and long-term interaction of this push and pull between the government's legitimate desire for surveillance and legitimate desire expressed by individuals and society as a whole for civil liberties and autonomy run deeply though America's history, laws, actions, and policies of government surveillance"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Volume 1. A-Z Entries

Volume 2. Primary documents.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9798216021681

9798216151944

9781440840555

1440840555

OCLC:

956332498

Publisher Number:

10.5040/9798216021681 doi