Spying on Democracy Government Surveillance, Corporate Power and Public Resistance

Informationen zum Autor Heidi Boghosian is the Executive Director of the National Lawyers Guild and oversees the legal defense of protesters and individuals targeted by the government. She co-hosts the program "Law and Disorder" based out of Pacifica radio network’s WBAI, New York, and is broadcast to more than 25 states on over 42 stations. Selected writings by Boghosian include Punishing Protest (National Lawyers Guild 2007), Applying Restraints to Private Police (Missouri Law Review 2005) and The Assault on Free Speech, Public Assembly, and Dissent (North River Press 2004). Her books reviews have appeared in The Federal Lawyer and the New York Law Journal. Klappentext Spying on US citizens is rising as corporations make big bucks selling info about our private lives to the government. Zusammenfassung Spying on US citizens is rising as corporations make big bucks selling info about our private lives to the government. Inhaltsverzeichnis CONTENTSIntroduction:Personal data is the post-9/11 commodity1 Trafficking Imagination in the Streets 2 A Nation Spies on Its Own 3 The Business of Spying 4 Privatizing the Police 5 Listening in on Lawyers 6 Spychips7 Censoring Cyberspace8 Tools to Chill Free Speech9 The Cost of Suppressing Dissent10 The Surveillance Camera PlayersAbout the AuthorIndex

Product details

• Authors: Heidi Boghosian
• Publisher: City Light Books
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 22.08.2013
• Subject: Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education
• EAN: 9780872865990
• ISBN: 978-0-87286-599-0
• Pages: 352
• Dimensions (packing): 13.2 x 18.1 x 2.5 cm
• Series: City Lights Open Media; City Lights Open Media
• Subjects: Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte, Krieg und Verteidigung, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Security (National & International), POLITICAL SCIENCE / Intelligence & Espionage, Recht: Menschenrechte und Bürgerrechte, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Government & Business, Politics / Current Events, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights