Ebook: The Rise of the American Corporate Security State: Six Reasons to Be Afraid
Author: Edwards Beatrice
- Tags: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS--Industries--General, Business and politics, Business and politics--United States, Corporations, Corporations--United States, Electronic surveillance--Political aspects--United States, Government contractors, Government contractors--United States, Intelligence service--Contracting out, Intelligence service--Contracting out--United States, Internal security--Political aspects--United States, National security--Political aspects--United States, Privacy Right of, Privacy Right of--United
- Year: 2014
- Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
- City: San Francisco;US;United States
- Language: English
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Cover; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Part I: The National Security State; Chapter 1 The Government-Corporate Complex: What It Knows about You: REASON TO BE AFRAID #1: Average citizens are subject to ever-expanding surveillanceand data collection by the government-corporate complex.; Chapter 2 Official Secrets: Absolute Control: REASON TO BE AFRAID #2: Control of information by the government-corporate complexis expanding.;Take Back Our Civil Liberties!Beatrice Edwards, executive director of the organization representing Edward Snowden and four other NSA whistleblowers, argues that we now live in a Corporate Security State, where the government is more interested in protecting the companies that serve it than the citizens who support it. Hheavy domestic surveillance, political persecution of dissenters, the threat of indefinite detention codified into law-how did we get here? And is there a way out?Edwards details how intelligence agencies took advantage of 9/11 to illegitimately extend the government's reach. C.
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