American Spies: Modern Surveillance, Why You Should Care, and What to Do About It

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Author(s):
  • Jennifer Granick
Publish Date:
December 16, 2016
Format:
Book, Whole
Citation(s):
  • Jennifer Stisa Granick, American Spies: Modern Surveillance, Why You Should Care, and What to Do About It, Cambridge [UK]; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016.
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Abstract

Contents
– Modern surveillance: massive, classified, and indiscriminate
– Word games
– Snowden, surveillance whistleblowers, and democracy
– We kill people based on metadata
– The shadow of September 11th
– Modern surveillance & counterterrorism
– Americans caught up In the foreign intelligence net
– Warrantless wiretapping of Americans under Section 702
– Nothing to hide? : a short history of surveillance abuses
– The minimal comfort of minimization
– Do unto others : why Americans should protect foreigners’ privacy rights
– U.S. surveillance law before September 11th
– American spies after September 11th: illegality and legalism
– Modern surveillance and the Fourth Amendment
– The failures of external oversight
– The National InSecurity Agency
– The future of surveillance.