Title:
Dragnet nation : a quest for privacy, security, and freedom in a world of relentless surveillance / Julia Angwin.
Author:
Angwin, Julia, author.
Publication Information:
New York : St. Martin's Griffin, [2015]
©2014
Call Number:
JC596 .A54 2015
Abstract:
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, and even criminals use technology to indiscriminately sweep up vast amounts of our personal data. She argues that the greatest long-term danger is that we start to internalize the surveillance and censor our words and thoughts, until we lose our freedom. Appalled at such a prospect, Angwin conducts a series of experiments to try to protect herself.
Edition:
First St. Martin's Griffin edition.
ISBN:
9781250060860
Physical Description:
298 pages ; 21 cm.
General Note:
Reprint with new afterword. Originally published: New York : Times Books, 2014.
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.
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