{"product_id":"9780872866034","title":"Spying on Democracy: Government Surveillance, Corporate Power and Public Resistance","description":"\u003cp\u003eUntil the watershed leak of top-secret documents by Edward Snowden to the \u003ci\u003eGuardian UK\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, most Americans did not realize the extent to which our government is actively acquiring personal information from telecommunications companies and other corporations. As made startlingly clear, the National Security Agency (NSA) has collected information on every phone call Americans have made over the past seven years. In that same time, the NSA and the FBI have gained the ability to access emails, photos, audio and video chats, and additional content from Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Microsoft, YouTube, Skype, Apple, and others, allegedly in order to track foreign targets.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eSpying on Democracy\u003c\/i\u003e, Heidi Boghosian documents the disturbing increase in surveillance of ordinary citizens and the danger it poses to our privacy, our civil liberties, and to the future of democracy itself. Boghosian reveals how technology is being used to categorize and monitor people based on their associations, their movements, their purchases, and their perceived political beliefs. She shows how corporations and government intelligence agencies mine data from sources as diverse as surveillance cameras and unmanned drones to iris scans and medical records, while combing websites, email, phone records and social media for resale to third parties, including U.S. intelligence agencies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe ACLU's Michael German says of the examples shown in Boghosian's book, \"this unrestrained spying is inevitably used to suppress the most essential tools of democracy: the press, political activists, civil rights advocates and conscientious insiders who blow the whistle on corporate malfeasance and government abuse.\" Boghosian adds, “If the trend is permitted to continue, we will soon live in a society where nothing is confidential, no information is really secure, and our civil liberties are under constant surveillance and control.” \u003ci\u003eSpying on Democracy\u003c\/i\u003e is a timely, invaluable, and accessible primer for anyone concerned with protecting privacy, freedom, and the U.S. Constitution.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Everyone of us is under the omniscient magnifying glass of the government and corporate spies. . . . How do we respond to this smog of surveillance? Start by reading \u003ci\u003eSpying on Democracy: Government Surveillance, Corporate Power, and Public Resistance\u003c\/i\u003e by Heidi Boghosian\" —Bill Moyers\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"With ex-CIA staffer Edward Snowden’s leaks about National Security Agency surveillance in the headlines, Heidi Boghosian’s \u003ci\u003eSpying on Democracy: Government Surveillance, Corporate Power, and Public Resistance\u003c\/i\u003e feels especially timely. Boghosian reveals how the government acquires information from telecommunications companies and other organizations to create databases about 'persons of interest.'” —\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Heidi Boghosian's \u003ci\u003eSpying on Democracy\u003c\/i\u003e is the answer to the question, 'if you're not doing anything wrong, why should you care if someone's watching you?'\" —Michael German, Senior Policy Counsel, ACLU and former FBI agent\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHeidi Boghosian, a lawyer, is the executive director of the A.J. Muste Memorial Institute and co-hosts the weekly civil liberties radio program, \"Law and Disorder,\" which airs on Pacifica's WBAI in New York and on over 50 national affiliate stations around the country. She has published numerous articles and reports on policing, protest, and the First Amendment, including \u003ci\u003eThe Policing of Political Speech\u003c\/i\u003e (National Lawyers Guild 2010), \u003ci\u003eApplying Restraints to Private Police\u003c\/i\u003e (Missouri Law Review 2005), and \u003ci\u003eThe Assault on Free Speech, Public Assembly, and Dissent\u003c\/i\u003e (North River Press 2004). Her book reviews have been published in \u003ci\u003eThe Federal Lawyer\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eNew York Law Journal\u003c\/i\u003e. She is formerly the Executive Director of the National Lawyers Guild, a progressive Bar Association established in 1937.She received her JD from Temple Law School where she was editor-in-chief of the \u003ci\u003eTemple Political\u0026amp;Civil Rights Law Review\u003c\/i\u003e. She also holds an MS from Boston University College of Communication and a BA from Brown University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"City Lights Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47101679599856,"sku":"9780872866034","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780872866034_p0.jpg?v=1763845749","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780872866034","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}