Cover Image

Dragnet nation : a quest for privacy, security, and freedom in a world of relentless surveillance /

Online ads from websites you've visited... smartphones and cars transmitting your location... data-gathering surveillance operations across the Internet and on your phone lines. You are being watched.... Angwin offers a revelatory and unsettling look at how the government, private companies, a...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Angwin, Julia
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Times Books, Henry Holt and Company, 2014.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Privacy, Right of.
Electronic surveillance.
National security > Moral and ethical aspects.
Information technology > Moral and ethical aspects.
Civil rights.
Table of Contents:
  • Hacked
  • A short history of tracking
  • State of surveillance
  • Freedom of association
  • Threat models
  • The audit
  • The first line of defense
  • Leaving Google
  • Introducing Ida
  • Pocket litter
  • Opting out
  • The hall of mirrors
  • Lonely codes
  • Fighting fear
  • The unfairness doctrine.