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A Quest for Privacy, Security, and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance
Times Books
March 2014
On Sale: February 25, 2014
304 pages
ISBN: 0805098070
EAN: 9780805098075
Kindle: B00FCQW7HG
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Non-Fiction
An inside look at who’s watching you, what they know and
why it matters. We are being watched. We see online
ads from websites we’ve visited, long after we’ve moved on
to other interests. Our smartphones and cars transmit our
location, enabling us to know what’s in the neighborhood but
also enabling others to track us. And the federal
government, we recently learned, has been conducting a
massive data-gathering surveillance operation across the
Internet and on our phone lines. In Dragnet
Nation, award-winning investigative journalist Julia
Angwin reports from the front lines of America’s
surveillance economy, offering a revelatory and unsettling
look at how the government, private companies, and even
criminals use technology to indiscriminately sweep up vast
amounts of our personal data. In a world where we can be
watched in our own homes, where we can no longer keep
secrets, and where we can be impersonated, financially
manipulated, or even placed in a police lineup, Angwin
argues that the greatest long-term danger is that we start
to internalize the surveillance and censor our words and
thoughts, until we lose the very freedom that makes us
unique individuals. Appalled at such a prospect, Angwin
conducts a series of experiments to try to protect herself,
ranging from quitting Google to carrying a “burner” phone,
showing how difficult it is for an average citizen to resist
the dragnets’ reach. Her book is a cautionary tale for
all of us, with profound implications for our values, our
society, and our very selves.
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