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Informationen zum Autor Jennifer Granick is Director of Civil Liberties at Stanford Law School. She practices, speaks and writes about computer crime and security, electronic surveillance, consumer privacy, and data protection. Klappentext American Spies is an entertaining, accessible, and sophisticated exposition of the existing laws and technologies that enable massive modern surveillance. Zusammenfassung American Spies is an accessible discussion of the incredibly complicated issue of modern surveillance in the United States. Written for a general audience by a legal expert! the book educates readers about how the reality of modern surveillance differs from popular understanding. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Modern surveillance: massive, classified, and indiscriminate; 2. Word games; 3. Snowden, surveillance whistleblowers, and democracy; 4. We kill people based on metadata; 5. The shadow of September 11th; 6. Modern surveillance and counterterrorism; 7. Americans caught up in the foreign intelligence net; 8. Warrantless wiretapping of Americans under Section 702; 9. Nothing to hide?: a short history of surveillance abuses; 10. The minimal comfort of minimization; 11. Do unto others: why Americans should protect foreigners' privacy rights; 12. US surveillance law before September 11th; 13. American spies after September 11th: illegality and legalism; 14. Modern surveillance and the Fourth Amendment; 15. The failures of external oversight; 16. The National InSecurity Agency; 17. The future of surveillance.
