Under Surveillance: Being Watched in Modern America

"An engaging, alarming, and enlightening book, one that is certain to be among the most important books on surveillance in the twenty-first century." —Siva Vaidhyanathan, author of Antisocial Media

Never before has so much been known about so many. CCTV cameras, TSA scanners, NSA databases, big data marketers, predator drones, "stop and frisk" tactics, Facebook algorithms, hidden spyware, and even old-fashioned nosy neighbors—surveillance has become so ubiquitous that we take its presence...