Spying on Democracy
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Spying on Democracy

Government Surveillance, Corporate Power and Public Resistance

Heidi Boghosian

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Spying on Democracy

Government Surveillance, Corporate Power and Public Resistance

Heidi Boghosian

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Until the watershed leak of top-secret documents by Edward Snowden to the Guardian UK and the Washington Post, 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.

In Spying on Democracy, National Lawyers Guild Executive Director Heidi Boghosian documents the disturbing increase in surveillance of ordinary citizens and the danger it poses to our privacy, our civil liberties and 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.

The 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." Spying on Democracy is a timely, invaluable and accessible primer for anyone concerned with protecting privacy, freedom and the U.S. Constitution.

Heidi Boghosian is the Executive Director of the National Lawyers Guild. She co-hosts Law and Disorder, broadcast on WBAI-FM in New York and over forty stations nationwide. She is based in New York City.

"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 Spying on Democracy: Government Surveillance, Corporate Power, and Public Resistance by Heidi Boghosian"—Bill Moyers

"With ex-CIA staffer Edward Snowden's leaks about National Security Agency surveillance in the headlines, Heidi Boghosian's Spying on Democracy: Government Surveillance, Corporate Power, and Public Resistance feels especially timely. Boghosian reveals how the government acquires information from telecommunications companies and other organizations to create databases about 'persons of interest.'"— Publishers Weekly

"Heidi Boghosian's Spying on Democracy 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

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  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Foreword by Lewis Lapham
  7. Introduction
  8. Chapter One: Trafficking Imagination in the Streets
  9. Chapter Two: A Whopper, a Coke, and an Order of Spies
  10. Chapter Three: Enemies at Home
  11. Chapter Four: Always Deceptive, Often Illegal
  12. Chapter Five: Spying on Children
  13. Chapter Six: Green Squads
  14. Chapter Seven: Listening in on Lawyers
  15. Chapter Eight: Spying on the Press
  16. Chapter Nine: The Constitutional Cost of Contracting
  17. Chapter Ten: Computers Can’t Commit Crimes
  18. Chapter Eleven: Celestial Eyes
  19. Chapter Twelve: Location, Location, Location
  20. Chapter Thirteen: Troublemakers Bring Us to Our Senses
  21. Conclusion: Custodians of Democracy
  22. Endnotes
  23. Index
  24. About the Author
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APA 6 Citation

Boghosian, H. (2013). Spying on Democracy ([edition unavailable]). City Lights Publishers. Retrieved from https://www.perlego.com/book/3592600/spying-on-democracy-government-surveillance-corporate-power-and-public-resistance-pdf (Original work published 2013)

Chicago Citation

Boghosian, Heidi. (2013) 2013. Spying on Democracy. [Edition unavailable]. City Lights Publishers. https://www.perlego.com/book/3592600/spying-on-democracy-government-surveillance-corporate-power-and-public-resistance-pdf.

Harvard Citation

Boghosian, H. (2013) Spying on Democracy. [edition unavailable]. City Lights Publishers. Available at: https://www.perlego.com/book/3592600/spying-on-democracy-government-surveillance-corporate-power-and-public-resistance-pdf (Accessed: 15 October 2022).

MLA 7 Citation

Boghosian, Heidi. Spying on Democracy. [edition unavailable]. City Lights Publishers, 2013. Web. 15 Oct. 2022.