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No Place to Hide [internet surveillence and privacy

Book information

Publisher
Free Press
Year
2005
ISBN
9780743254809, 0743254805
Open Library ID
OL15569041M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (6472430 bytes)
Edition
First Edition
Pages
348\367
Library
Great Science Textbooks DVD Library 2007
Time added
2009-10-26 09:21:54

Description

In No Place to Hide, award-winning Washington Post reporter Robert O'Harrow, Jr., pulls back the curtain on an unsettling trend: the emergence of a data-driven surveillance society intent on giving us the conveniences and services we crave, like cell phones, discount cards, and electronic toll passes, while watching us more closely than ever before. He shows that since the September 11, 2001, terror attacks, the information industry giants have been enlisted as private intelligence services for homeland security. And at a time when companies routinely collect billions of details about nearly every American adult, No Place to Hide shines a bright light on the sorry state of information security, revealing how people can lose control of their privacy and identities at any moment.Now with a new afterword that details the latest security breaches and the government's failing efforts to stop them, O'Harrow shows us that, in this new world of high-tech domestic intelligence, there is literally no place to hide.As O'Harrow writes, "This book is all about you and your personal information -- and the story isn't pretty."

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