Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security, and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance

One in every of Publishers Weekly’s Prime 10 Enterprise & Economics Books: A “fascinating” inside take a look at who’s watching you, what they know, and why it issues (Kirkus Critiques).
A New York Instances Bestseller
In Dragnet Nation, award-winning investigative journalist Julia Angwin stories from the entrance strains of America’s surveillance economic system, providing a revelatory and unsettling take a look at how the federal government, personal firms, and even criminals use know-how to indiscriminately sweep up huge quantities of our private information. In a world the place we may be watched in our personal houses, the place we will not preserve secrets and techniques, and the place we may be impersonated, financially manipulated, and even positioned in a police lineup, Angwin argues that the best long-term hazard is that we begin to internalize the surveillance and censor our phrases and ideas, till we lose the very freedom that makes us distinctive people. Appalled at such a prospect, Angwin conducts a sequence of experiments to attempt to shield herself, starting from quitting Google to carrying a burner telephone, exhibiting how troublesome it’s for a median citizen to withstand the dragnets’ attain. Her ebook is a cautionary story for all of us, with profound implications for our values, our society, and our very selves.
“Attracts on conversations with researchers, hackers and IT consultants, surveying the fashionable dragnet monitoring made doable by large computing energy, smaller gadgets and low-cost storage of knowledge.” —Kirkus Critiques
“A helpful, well-reported research.” —Los Angeles Instances
“Informative, conversational . . . a useful information for readers looking for non-jargony info on minimizing their digital footprints.” —Columbia Journalism Evaluation
“Angwin, a longtime reporter on digital privateness points for the Wall Avenue Journal, releases the modern (and, sadly, nonfiction) companion ebook to Orwell’s 1984. Dragnet Nation examines the surveillance economic system and its impact on free speech and thought, seemingly inflicting readers to rethink the subsequent phrases they sort right into a search engine.” —LA Weekly
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00FCQW7HG
Writer ‏ : ‎ Instances Books; First version (February 25, 2014)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 25, 2014
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File dimension ‏ : ‎ 4.5 MB
Textual content-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Display screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Phrase Clever ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Print size ‏ : ‎ 304 pages