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- Book Title
- Means of Control : How the Hidden Alliance of Tech and Government Is Creating a New American Surveillance State
- Publication Name
- Means of Control
- Title
- Means of Control
- Subtitle
- How the Hidden Alliance of Tech and Government Is Creating a New
- Format
- Hardcover
- ISBN-10
- 0593443225
- EAN
- 9780593443224
- ISBN
- 9780593443224
- Publisher
- Crown Publishing Group, T.H.E.
- Genre
- Computers, Business & Economics, Social Science
- Topic
- Privacy & Surveillance (See Also Political Science / Privacy & Surveillance), Sociology / General, Security / Online Safety & Privacy, Government & Business
- Release Year
- 2024
- Release Date
- 27/02/2024
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 1.3 in
- Item Length
- 9.6 in
- Item Width
- 6.3 in
- Item Weight
- 22 Oz
- Publication Year
- 2024
- Number of Pages
- 400 Pages
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You are being surveilled right now. This sweeping exposé reveals how the U.S. government allied with data brokers, tech companies, and advertisers to monitor us through the phones we carry and the devices in our home. "A revealing . . . startling . . . timely . . . fascinating, sometimes terrifying examination of the decline of privacy in the digital age."-- Kirkus Reviews "That evening, I was given a glimpse inside a hidden world. . . . An entirely new kind of surveillance program--one designed to track everyone." For the past five years--ever since a chance encounter at a dinner party--journalist Byron Tau has been piecing together a secret story: how the whole of the internet and every digital device in the world became a mechanism of intelligence, surveillance, and monitoring. Of course, our modern world is awash in surveillance. Most of us are dimly aware of this: Ever get the sense that an ad is "following" you around the internet? But the true potential of our phones, computers, homes, credit cards, and even the tires underneath our cars to reveal our habits and behavior would astonish most citizens. All of this surveillance has produced an extraordinary amount of valuable data about every one of us. That data is for sale--and the biggest customer is the U.S. government. In the years after 9/11, the U.S. government, working with scores of anonymous companies, many scattered across bland Northern Virginia suburbs, built a foreign and domestic surveillance apparatus of breathtaking scope--one that can peer into the lives of nearly everyone on the planet. This cottage industry of data brokers and government bureaucrats has one directive--"get everything you can"--and the result is a surreal world in which defense contractors have marketing subsidiaries and marketing companies have defense contractor subsidiaries. And the public knows virtually nothing about it. Sobering and revelatory, Means of Control is the defining story of our dangerous grand bargain--ubiquitous cheap technology, but at what price?
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Publisher
Crown Publishing Group, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
0593443225
ISBN-13
9780593443224
eBay Product ID (ePID)
20060623737
Product Key Features
Book Title
Means of Control : How the Hidden Alliance of Tech and Government Is Creating a New American Surveillance State
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Privacy & Surveillance (See Also Political Science / Privacy & Surveillance), Sociology / General, Security / Online Safety & Privacy, Government & Business
Publication Year
2024
Genre
Computers, Business & Economics, Social Science
Number of Pages
400 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.6 in
Item Height
1.3 in
Item Width
6.3 in
Item Weight
22 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Lc Classification Number
Hv7936.T4t48 2024
Reviews
"Byron Tau has revealed the secret history of a new American surveillance state. We are all its unwitting builders, providing the raw materials from the phones we carry in our pockets and the devices we place in our homes. As Tau shows in vivid, often frightening detail, none of us consented to this arrangement. But we can hardly be surprised that corporations and governments have scooped up unfathomable amounts of information about us, since it was practically free for the taking. Means of Control is an urgent story, meticulously reported and compellingly told. A testament to the singular and indispensable power of journalism to shine light in the dark and find answers to the hardest questions." --Shane Harris, author of The Watchers "Byron Tau's extraordinary book recounts in engrossing detail how the U.S. government exploits massive loopholes in U.S. surveillance law to purchase in vast digital bazaars the intimate personal data that Americans unwittingly spew from their phones, cars, and computers every minute of every day. Means of Control exposes how American surveillance capitalism breeds secret government surveillance on a scale never imagined." --Jack Goldsmith, Learned Hand Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
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2023-048680
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