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"With ex-CIA staffer Edward Snowden's leaks about National Security Agency surveillance in the headlines, Heidi Boghosians Spying on Democracy: Government Surveillance, Corporate Power, and Public Resistance feels especially timely. Boghosian reveals how the government acquires information from telecommunications companies and other organizations to create databases about 'persons of interest.'"--Publishers Weekly The government is spying on you, collecting phone records, and accessing your online activity. This is not only unacceptable, it's unconstitutional. National Lawyers Guild Executive Director Heidi Boghosian provides the back story. 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. We now know that the National Security Agency (NSA) has collected information on every phone call Americans have made over the past seven years. And, in that same time, the NSA and the FBI have gained the ability to access emails, photos, audio and video chats, and additi

Who reads Spying on Democracy: Government Surveillance, Corporate Power and Public Resistance (City Lights Open Media)?

Author

Heidi Boghosian

Publisher

San Francisco: City Lights Publishers

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780872865990

Category

history

Subjects

Political Science, Fiction, History

Rating

3.58 / 5 (47 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14