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1) Surveillance
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It has not been a good day. When Federal Officers Elizabeth Anderson and Sam Hallaway arrive at Captain Billing's office, they have three sets of stories to figure out and a string of vicious murders to consider. One zealot cop, a strung out junkie and an eight year old girl all sit in testimony to the roadside rampage, but as the Feds begin to expose the fragile little details each witness conceals so carefully with a well practiced lie, they soon...
2) Surveillance
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When FBI agents arrive at a local police station to investigate a series of gruesome murders, there are three witnesses with three different stories of the roadside rampage. Official Selection at the **Cannes Film Festival**.
3) Surveillance
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Janeane Linson is dead, and every detail of her murder has been erased.
We abandoned privacy and turned databases into something like gods. They listened to our prayers. They met our needs and blessed us with new riches. They watched over us, protected us, and punished the wicked among us. We almost made a paradise.
However, there were those who tried to hide from the databases' all-seeing eye. They used their wealth, power, or intellect to...
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Hailed as a masterwork of reporting and analysis, and based on decades of research within China, We Have Been Harmonized, by award-winning correspondent Kai Strittmatter, offers a groundbreaking look at how the internet and high tech have allowed China to create the largest and most effective surveillance state in history. We Have Been Harmonized is a terrifying portrait of life under unprecedented government surveillance--and a dire warning about...
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"Until the 21st century, most of our activities were private by default, public only through effort; today anything that touches digital space has the potential (and likelihood) to remain somewhere online forever. That means all of the technologies that have made our lives easier, faster, better, and/or more efficient have also simultaneously made it easier to keep an eye on our activities. Or, as we recently learned from reports about Cambridge Analytica,...
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From the three-time Pulitzer Prize winner and author of the New York Times bestseller Angler, the definitive narrative of Edward Snowden and the modern surveillance state. When Edward Snowden gave Barton Gellman, Laura Poitras, and Glenn Greenwald each a vast and explosive archive of highly classified NSA files, he, and they, touched off an ongoing global controversy. But for Gellman, the initial scoop was only the beginning of a deep investigation...
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"Josh Chin and Liza Lin's Surveillance State is a groundbreaking work of investigative nonfiction on life in China's burgeoning surveillance state. People living in democracies have for decades drawn comfort from the notion that their form of government, for all its flaws, is the best history has managed to produce. Surveillance State documents with startling detail how even as China's Communist Party pays lip service to democracy as a core value...
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"Starting in the early 1960s, there was fear in America about the proliferation of computer database and networking technologies. People worried that these systems were going to be used by both corporations and governments for surveillance and control. Indeed, the dominant cultural view at the time was that computers were tools of repression, not liberation -- and that included the ARPANET, the military research network that would grow into the Internet...
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Shift your attention to electronic surveillance, and see how the monitoring of web searches and emails allows the government to gain insights into potential security risks from abroad. But even though the surveillance program has oversight, some people fear the potential for abuse is high. Look at both sides of the issue.
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« Un chef-d'œuvre de suspens et de mystère ! L'auteur à fait un travail exceptionnel pour développer les personnages, avec un cté psychologique si bien utilisé que nous avons l'impression d'être dans leurs têtes, vivant leurs peurs et se réjouissant pour leurs succès. L'intrigue est menée avec intelligence et vous divertira jusqu'à la fin. Remplis de rebondissements, ce livre vous tiendra en haleine jusqu'à la dernière page. »
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"In Dark Matters Simone Browne locates the conditions of blackness as a key site through which surveillance is practiced, narrated, and resisted. She shows how contemporary surveillance technologies and practices are informed by the long history of racial formation and by the methods of policing black life under slavery, such as branding, runaway slave notices, and lantern laws. Placing surveillance studies into conversation with the archive of transatlantic...
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See what measures the American government took during the Cold War to prevent our devolution into a Stasi-like state. While the CIA and the FBI had several unauthorized surveillance programs in the 1950s and 1960s, Congress and the Supreme Court stepped in to oversee the intelligence world with several powerful measures in the 1970s.
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A man shoots down a drone that is flying over his private property. A retail store uses predictive data analytics to send pregnancy-related advertising to a teenager who has not told her parents about her condition. A police officer places a GPS device on a suspected criminal's car to follow him and build a case against him..The news is full of such stories, in which new technologies lead to dilemmas that could not have been imagined just a few decades...
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