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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 whoβs watching you, what they know and why it matters. We are being watched. We see online ads from websites weβve visited, long after weβve moved on to other interests. Our smartphones and cars transmit our location, enabling us to know whatβs 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 Americaβs 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 βburnerβ phone, showing how difficult it is for an average citizen to resist the dragnetsβ 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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