The Soft Cage
Surveillance in America, From Slavery to the War on Terror
- Paperback
286 pages
- Release Date
24 November 2004
Summary
On a typical day, you might make a call on a cell phone, withdraw money at an ATM, visit the mall, and make a purchase with a credit card. Each of these routine transactions leaves a digital trail for government agencies and businesses to access. As cutting-edge historian and journalist Christian Parenti points out, these everyday intrusions on privacy, while harmless in themselves, are part of a relentless (and clandestine) expansion of routine surveillance in American life over the last two…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780465054855 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0465054854 |
| Author: | Christian Parenti |
| Publisher: | Basic Books |
| Imprint: | Basic Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 286 |
| Release Date: | 24 November 2004 |
| Weight: | 374g |
| Dimensions: | 225mm x 152mm x 16mm |
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About The Author
Christian Parenti
Christian Parenti is the author of Lockdown America. His writing appears regularly in The Nation, the San Diego Union Tribune, and the San Francisco Chronicle. He has a Ph.D. in sociology from the London School of Economics and is currently a Soros Senior Justice Fellow at the Open Society Institute and a fellow at the centre for the Study of Place, Culture and Politics, CUNY Graduate centre. He lives in Brooklyn.
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