We Know All About You
The Story of Surveillance in Britain and America
(Sprache: Englisch)
The story of surveillance in Britain and the United States - from the detective agencies of the late nineteenth century to the era of wikileaks and the Snowden revelations in the twenty-first. The first history of its kind - and a salutary assessment of the...
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The story of surveillance in Britain and the United States - from the detective agencies of the late nineteenth century to the era of wikileaks and the Snowden revelations in the twenty-first. The first history of its kind - and a salutary assessment of the dangers of the surveillance society in which we live today.
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We Know All About You shows how bulk spying came of age in the nineteenth century, and supplies the first overarching narrative and interpretation of what has happened since, covering the agencies, programs, personalities, technology, leaks, criticisms and reform. Concentrating on America and Britain, it delves into the roles of credit agencies, private detectives, and phone-hacking journalists as well as government agencies like the NSA and GCHQ, and highlights malpractices such as the blacklist and illegal electronic interceptions. It demonstrates that several presidents - Franklin D. Roosevelt, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard M. Nixon - conducted political surveillance, and how British agencies have been under a constant cloud of suspicion for similar reasons. We Know All About You continues with an account of the 1970s leaks that revealed how the FBI and CIA kept tabs on anti-Vietnam War protestors, and assesses the reform impulse that began in America and spread to Britain. The end of the Cold War further undermined confidence in the need for surveillance, but it returned with a vengeance after 9/11. The book shows how reformers challenged that new expansionism, assesses the political effectiveness of the Snowden revelations, and offers an appraisal of legislative initiatives on both sides of the Atlantic.
Micro-stories and character sketches of individuals ranging from Pinkerton detective James McParlan to recent whisteblowers illuminate the book. We Know All About You confirms that governments have a record of abusing surveillance powers once granted, but emphasizes that problems arising from private sector surveillance have been particularly neglected.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „We Know All About You “
- Introduction
- 1: A Survey of Surveillance
- 2: The Private Eye Invades our Privacy
- 3: The Blacklist
- 4: Franklin D. Roosevelt's Incipient Surveillance State
- 5: McCarthyism in America
- 6: McCarthyism in Britain
- 7: COINTELPRO and 1960s surveillance
- 8: An Age of Transparency
- 9: The Intensification of Surveillance Post-9/11
- 10: Private-Sector Surveillance in the Twenty-First Century
- 11: Snowden
- 12: Policy and Reform in the Obama-Cameron Era
- Conclusion
- Appendix
- Bibliography
Autoren-Porträt von Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones
Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones is Emeritus Professor of American History at the University of Edinburgh and has held postdoctoral fellowships at Harvard, the Free University of Berlin, and Toronto. The founder of the Scottish Association for the Study of America, of which is he the current honorary president, he has also published widely on intelligence history, including The CIA and American Democracy (1989), The FBI: A History (2007), and In Spies We Trust: The Story of Western Intelligence , the last of these also published by Oxford University Press (2013). He was the winner of the 2014 Neustadt Prize for the best UK book on American politics with The American Left: Its Impact on Politics and Society (2013).Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones
- 2017, 304 Seiten, 8 Abbildungen, Maße: 13,6 x 20,3 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 019874966X
- ISBN-13: 9780198749660
- Erscheinungsdatum: 06.04.2017
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
In this outstanding, brief overview of the history of surveillance and debates surrounding it in the UK and US, University of Edinburgh academic Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones challenges head-on Orwells representation of the secret state in his celebrated dystopian novel... overall, the author has presented a convincing critique of Orwellian statism. Richard Lance Keeble (Lincoln and Liverpool Hope University), George Orwell Studies Vol. 2, No.1 2017
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