The No-Nonsense Guide to Global Surveillance

by Robin Tudge

Overview

Spying, once the province of the KGB, CIA, and MI5, has become part of everyday life and a multi-billion dollar industry. Governments routinely trawl our emails and CCTV cameras follow us on every street, while state databases of our DNA become larger all the time. This book shows the extent to which Big Brother is watching us all.

Robin Tudge is a freelance journalist and author who has lived and worked in Chicago, Pyongyang, Moscow, Hanoi, and Beijing. He is the author of The Bradt Guide to North Korea and the award-winning Rough Guide to Conspiracy Theories.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781780260273
Publisher:	New Internationalist
Publication date:	03/22/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	144
File size:	384 KB

About the Author

Robin Tudge is a freelance journalist and author who has lived and worked in Chicago, Pyongyang, Moscow, Hanoi and Beijing. Robin Tudge is the author of The Bradt Guide to North Korea and the award-winning Rough Guide to Conspiracy Theories.

Table of Contents

CONTENTS
Foreword by Gus Hosein
Introduction
1 A day in the life… ‘Big Brother’ today
2 A brief history of surveillance
3 The death of privacy
4 The dangers of ID cards
5 The technology of control
6 Big Brother is watching – and making a fat profit
7 The politics of fear
8 Brave new world
Resources
Index