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Author Taylor, Stuart, Jr., 1948-

Title Big Snoop : Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Terrorists
Published Brookings Institution Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource
Series Brookings essay
Brookings essay
Contents The founders' intent -- The game changer -- The whole haystack -- Does surveillance keep America safe? -- What's to be done
Summary When Edward Snowden hit the send button on a laptop in Hong Kong in June 2013, just shy of his 30th birthday, he became the poster boy for an acutely American conundrum: the tension between the government's constitutional commitment to the privacy of individuals and its responsibility for the safety of the nation. Stuart Taylor, Jr. reviews 200 years of surveillance in the U.S., the leading actors in the NSA debate since Snowden's leaks, and the challenges that lie ahead-namely, finding the right balance between national security and individual privacy. Taylor also enlists four experts represe
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Subject Government accountability.
Technology -- Political aspects
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- International.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Security (National & International)
Government accountability
Technology -- Political aspects
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781306695091
9780815726326
1306695090
0815726325