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Author Lyon, David, 1948- author.

Title Surveillance after Snowden / David Lyon
Published Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity Press, 2015
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Contents Title page -- Copyright page -- Preface -- Notes -- Acknowledgements -- Citizenfour Alert! -- The Key Issues -- Surveillance: Three Dimensions -- Surveillance after Snowden -- Roadmap -- Notes -- 1: Snowden Storm -- Under the Iceberg Tip -- Unpredictable and Dangerous -- Who Saw It Coming? -- Decades of Development -- Following the Trends -- Post-9/11: Surveillance Sea Change? -- Notes -- 2: World Watching -- Dreaming the Internet -- Information Is Power -- The NSA's Global Tentacles -- Surveillance and the Future of the Internet -- Notes
3: Menacing MetadataBig Data, Big Brother? -- Snowden's Oxymoron: 'Targeting Everyone' -- Metadata Meddling -- Big Data Surveillance -- Big Data Capacities -- Big Data Consequences -- Where Next? -- Notes -- 4: Precarious Privacy -- Privacy Asserted: The Back-Story -- Privacy Versus Surveillance -- Why Privacy Matters -- Whistleblowers, Journalists and Other Targets -- Democracy and Surveillance: Security Trumps Politics -- Beyond Privacy? -- Notes -- 5: Framing Futures -- Framing the Bad News -- What Alternative Is There?
Clarifying the Vision: Democracy, DignitySurveillance and Human Flourishing -- Coda: From Words to Actions -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- End User License Agreement
Summary In 2013, Edward Snowden revealed that the NSA and its partners had been engaging in warrantless mass surveillance, using the internet and cellphone data, and driven by fear of terrorism under the sign of 'security'. In this compelling account, surveillance expert David Lyon guides the reader through Snowden's ongoing disclosures: the technological shifts involved, the steady rise of invisible monitoring of innocent citizens, the collusion of government agencies and for-profit companies and the implications for how we conceive of privacy in a democratic society infused by the lure of big data. Lyon discusses the distinct global reactions to Snowden and shows why some basic issues must be faced: how we frame surveillance, and the place of the human in a digital world. Surveillance after Snowden is crucial reading for anyone interested in politics, technology and society
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Snowden, Edward J., 1983-
SUBJECT Snowden, Edward J., 1983- fast
Subject Privacy, Right of.
Electronic surveillance.
Social control.
Data protection.
Civil rights.
Official secrets -- United States
Government information -- United States
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Media Studies.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights.
Civil rights
Data protection
Electronic surveillance
Government information
Official secrets
Privacy, Right of
Social control
Elektronisk övervakning.
Dataskydd.
Medborgerliga fri- och rättigheter.
Politics and Government.
United States
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780745690889
0745690882