Mass Surveillance and State Control

The Total Information Awareness Project
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-349-28759-8
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan

Buch, Englisch, 252 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 332 g

This book details the factors contributing to the degenerative trend of mass, warrantless government surveillance which imperils civil liberties, and specifies recommendations for constructive change. It also provides a platform for grassroots efforts to stop the decline before it is too late.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cohen, E.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Sozialpolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Warrantless, Mass Surveillance in a Culture of Control Post 9-11 America's Culture of Control The Total Information Awareness Project Legal Pretexts for Continuing the TIA Project Ignorance is Strength: Complicity of the Corporate Media and Telecom Behemoths The Tenuous Future of Net Neutrality Peace is War: the War on Terrorism Freedom is Slavery: Giving up your Civil Liberties as the Price of Freedom RFID Tags to NanoTech Surveillance: The Next Orwellian Frontier Becoming a Culture of Autonomy: Change we can Believe in

Über Autor(innen)

ELLIOT D. COHEN is Professor and Chair of the Department of Humanities at Indian River State College, USA and Adjunct Professor of Clinical Ethics in the College of Medicine at Florida State University, USA.