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English
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"Investigative reporter for The Guardian and bestselling author Glenn Greenwald, provides an in-depth look into the NSA scandal that has triggered a national debate over national security and information privacy. With further revelations from documents entrusted to Glenn Greenwald by Edward Snowden himself, this book explores the extraordinary cooperation between private industry and the NSA, and the far-reaching consequences of the government's surveillance...
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Language
English
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Journalist Bamford exposed the existence of the top-secret National Security Agency in The Puzzle Palace and continued to probe into its workings in his follow-up Body of Secrets. Now Bamford discloses inside, often shocking information about the transformation of the NSA in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of 2001. He shows how the NSA's failure to detect the presence of two of the 9/11 hijackers inside the United States led the NSA to abandon...
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
229 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Offers a graphic novel history of the use of electronic surveillance and drone strikes by the United States, as well as the journalists and whistle blowers who helped to expose the truth about these activities.
10) Snowden
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Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
A Seven Stories Press first edition.
Physical Desc
223 pages : color illustrations ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
As many as 1.4 million citizens with security clearance saw some or all of the same documents revealed by Edward Snowden. Why did he, and no one else, decide to step forward and take on the risks associated with becoming a whistleblower and then a fugitive? Rall delves into Snowden's early life and work experience, his personality, and the larger issues of privacy, new surveillance technologies, and the recent history of government intrusion. Rall...
Series
Reference shelf volume 89, no. 2
Language
English
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Description
Discusses major ethical issues in today's technology-centric society, from the controversy surrounding Edward Snowdens security leak of classified information, to hacked email accounts of prominent political candidates.
Author
Publisher
New York University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
vii, 259 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A survey of predictive policing: how data makes it possible, its benefits and pitfalls, and what it may portend for American law enforcement and race relations. In an important book that goes to the heart of issues at the forefront of contemporary life, Ferguson examines how police departments are now using supposedly "objective" data-driven surveillance technologies to work more effectively in a budget-cutting era and to avoid claims of racial bias....
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 350 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Challenges the popular image of Edward Snowden as hacker turned avenging angel, while revealing how vulnerable the United States' national security systems have become.
Author
Publisher
Nation Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xiv, 256 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"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....
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media
Pub. Date
℗2018
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
An important look at how fifty years of American privacy law is inadequate for today's surveillance technology, from acclaimed Ars Technica senior business editor Cyrus Farivar Until the twenty-first century, most of our activities were private by default, public only through effort; today anything that touches digital space has the potential (and likelihood) to remain somewhere online forever. That means all of the technologies that have made our...
20) The war on leakers: national security and American democracy, from Eugene v. Debs to Edward Snowden
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Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xii, 321 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Four days before Pearl Harbor, in December 1941, someone leaked American contingency war plans to the Chicago Tribune. The small splash the story made was overwhelmed by the shock waves caused by the Japanese attack on the Pacific fleet anchored in Hawaii - but the ripples never subsided, growing quietly but steadily across the Cold War, Vietnam, the fall of Communism, and into the present. Ripped from today's headlines, Lloyd C. Gardner's latest...
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