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    They Know Everything About You: How Data-Collecting Corporations and Snooping Government Agencies Are Destroying Democracy
    They Know Everything About You: How Data-Collecting Corporations and Snooping Government Agencies Are Destroying Democracy
    They Know Everything About You: How Data-Collecting Corporations and Snooping Government Agencies Are Destroying Democracy
    Audiobook7 hours

    They Know Everything About You: How Data-Collecting Corporations and Snooping Government Agencies Are Destroying Democracy

    Written by Robert Scheer

    Narrated by Dana Hickox

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    About this audiobook

    They Know Everything About You is a groundbreaking expose of how government agencies and tech corporations monitor virtually every aspect of our lives, and a fierce defense of privacy and democracy.

    The revelation that the government has access to a vast trove of personal online data demonstrates that we already live in a surveillance society. But the erosion of privacy rights extends far beyond big government. Intelligence agencies such as the NSA and CIA are using Silicon Valley corporate partners as their data spies. Seemingly progressive tech companies are joining forces with snooping government agencies to create a brave new world of wired tyranny.

    Life in the digital age poses an unprecedented challenge to our constitutional liberties, which guarantee a wall of privacy between the individual and the government. The basic assumption of democracy requires the ability of the individual to experiment with ideas and associations within a protected zone, as secured by the Constitution. The unobserved moment embodies the most basic of human rights, yet it is being squandered in the name of national security and consumer convenience.

    Robert Scheer argues that the information revolution, while a source of public enlightenment, contains the seeds of freedom's destruction in the form of a surveillance state that exceeds the wildest dream of the most ingenious dictator. The technology of surveillance, unless vigorously resisted, represents an existential threat to the liberation of the human spirit.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAscent Audio
    Release dateMar 1, 2015
    ISBN9781469060781
    They Know Everything About You: How Data-Collecting Corporations and Snooping Government Agencies Are Destroying Democracy

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      We got a chance to meet Robert Scheer when he did a book signing in our bookstore and I respected and appreciated him then, and now I have a new appreciation for him, because of this book. As always, privacy in our times is a disturbing topic, but this is a pretty complete look at the world of our government's spying on its citizens, as well as a look at what the business world does to learn, and profit, off your personal data. We live in a depressing time, when people give willing up so much of their privacy to so many websites, while at the same time that information is compiled and analyzed and shared with so many addition sites, entities both business and governmental, that people have no idea have access to it.