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They Know Everything About You - How Data-Collecting Corporations and Snooping Government Agencies Are Destroying Democracy (Paperback, First Trade Paper Edition)
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They Know Everything About You - How Data-Collecting Corporations and Snooping Government Agencies Are Destroying Democracy (Paperback, First Trade Paper Edition)
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Loot Price R437
Discovery Miles 4 370
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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 wiretapping to lax social media
security, from domestic spy drones to sophisticated biometrics,
both the United States government and private corporate interests
have dangerously undermined the delicate balance between national
security and individual sovereignty. Without privacy, Scheer
argues, there is neither freedom nor democracy. The freedom to be
left alone embodies the most basic of human rights. Yet this
freedom has been squandered in the name of national security and
consumer convenience.The information revolution has exposed much of
the world's population to a boundless world of universally shared
information. But it has also stripped both passive and active
participants of their every shred of privacy in ways most don't
comprehend. No authoritarian regime ever could have hoped to gain
the power to control the power and aspirations of their subjects
that today's off-the-shelf information technology already provides.
The technology of surveillance, Scheer warns, represents an
existential threat to the liberation of the human spirit.
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