Ebook: Surveillance valley : the secret military history of the internet
Author: Yasha Levine
- Tags: Electronic surveillance -- United States, Internet -- History, Civil-military relations -- United States, Military research -- United States -- History, ARPANET (Computer network) -- History, Domestic intelligence -- United States, Subculture -- United States -- History, Internet -- Political aspects, Privacy Right of, Intelligence service -- United States -- History, ARPANET (Computer network), Civil-military relations, Domestic intelligence, Electronic surveillance, Intelligence service, Internet, Military r
- Year: 2018
- Publisher: PublicAffairs (Perseus Books)
- City: New York, NY
- Edition: e-book
- Language: English
- epub
"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 Read more...