Interception: State Surveillance from Postal Systems to Global Networks

A media history of how the UK and US governments have surveilled citizens by intercepting their private communications.

It may not be Big Brother (yet), but the state is watching you—watching all of us, in fact—systematically intercepting our private communications and putting them to work in its own interests. In Interception, a media genealogy of the surveillance state at its most intimate, Bernard Keenan investigates the emergence of this practice as a governmental power and the secret ro...