Spying on Democracy: Government Surveillance, Corporate Power, and Public Resistance

by Heidi Boghosian

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0872865991
• ISBN13: 9780872865990
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: City Lights Books
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.0" x 7.0"