Privacy & Surveillance

We have created the ultimate hive-mind robot: an Internet of interconnected devices that senses, thinks and acts. Bruce Schneier calls it the "World-Sized Web". It includes everything from driverless cars to smart thermostats, from billboards that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538741153Author James BamfordFormat HardbackPage Count 496Imprint TwelvePublisher TwelveWeight(grams) 590gDimensions(mm) 239mm * 160mm * 41mm

A compelling firsthand investigation of how social media and big data have amplified the close relationship between privacy and inequality Online privacy is under constant attack by social media and big data technologies. But we cannot rely on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781523001026Author Thom HartmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Berrett-Koehler PublishersPublisher Berrett-Koehler Publishers

In 2019, award-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald writes in this gripping new book, "a series of events commenced that once again placed me at the heart of a sustained and explosive journalistic controversy." New reporting by Greenwald and his team of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789087284657Author Haiqing YuFormat HardbackPage Count 270Imprint Leiden University PressPublisher Leiden University Press

Postcolonial Surveillance investigates the long history of the European border regime, focusing on the colonial forerunners of today's border technologies. The book takes a longue duree perspective to uncover how Europe's colonial history continues to...

Surveillance and the Vanishing Individual is an investigation into the impact of the spread of digital technologies and practices, and especially the wide-spread practice of mass surveillance, on privacy and personhood. The book argues that the quest for...

Europe's Border and Surveillance Technologies advances a postcolonial reading of border and surveillance technologies by conceptualizing the present-day European border regime as part of a racial-colonial complex that stretches from the contemporary...

Surveillance and the Vanishing Individual is an investigation into the impact of the spread of digital technologies and practices, and especially the wide-spread practice of mass surveillance, on privacy and personhood. The book argues that the quest for...

An award-winning historian and journalist tells the very human story of apartheid's afterlife, tracing the fates of South African insurgents, collaborators, and the security police through the tale of the clandestine photo album used to target...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911593300Author Robert CorfeFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Arena BooksPublisher Arena Books

Cypherpunks are activists who advocate the widespread use of strong cryptography (writing in code) as a route to progressive change. Julian Assange, the editor-in-chief of and visionary behind WikiLeaks, has been a leading voice in the cypherpunk...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938875168Author Nick RedfernFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Disinformation CompanyPublisher Disinformation Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683962823Author Ivan GreenbergFormat HardbackPage Count 136Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher Fantagraphics

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781610398022Author Yasha LevineFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint PublicAffairs,U.S.Publisher PublicAffairs,U.S.

This book examines the ever-increasing impact of technology on our lives and explores a range of legal and constitutional questions that this raises. It considers the extent to which concepts such as 'cyberspace' and 'digital rights' advance or undermine...

One day in the spring of 2013, a box appeared outside a fourth-floor apartment door in Brooklyn, New York. The recipient, who didn't know the sender, only knew she was supposed to bring this box to a friend, who would ferry it to another friend. This was...

One day in the spring of 2013, a box appeared outside a fourth-floor apartment door in Brooklyn, New York. The recipient, who didn't know the sender, only knew she was supposed to bring this box to a friend, who would ferry it to another friend. This was...

We can hardly underestimate the importance of privacy in our data-driven world. Privacy breaches are not just about disclosing information. Personal data is used to profile and manipulate us - sometimes on such a large scale that it affects society as a...

A Short Introduction to Geospatial Intelligence explains the newest form of intelligence used by governments, commercial organizations, and individuals. Geospatial intelligence combines late 20th century historically derived ways of thinking and early...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798218267605Author Jeremy BenthamFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint CloakPublisher CloakWeight(grams) 122g

Negotiating Workplace Relationships teaches students how to navigate the ethically challenging and professionally risky situations they are likely to encounter in their working lives. Grounded in both classic and contemporary studies, this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798218206352Author CloakFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint CloakPublisher CloakWeight(grams) 41g

When the Founders penned the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution, it was not difficult to identify the "persons, houses, papers, and effects" they meant to protect; nor was it hard to understand what "unreasonable searches and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788194285151Author Musa JalalzaiFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint VIJ Books (India) Pty LtdPublisher VIJ Books (India) Pty Ltd

In a rapidly changing environment, Intelligence Surveillance developed through different types of technologies, software, strategies and drones operations in Europe and the United Kingdom. There are various forms of surveillance mechanisms, including...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945934049Author Intelligence Community AssessmentFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint Cosimo ReportsPublisher Cosimo ReportsWeight(grams) 73g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941859810Author Gregory E DouglasFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint PegasusbooksPublisher PegasusbooksWeight(grams) 86g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945934315Author Cia Activities CommissionFormat PaperbackPage Count 408Imprint Cosimo ReportsPublisher Cosimo ReportsWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648050902Author Steve J VenningFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Steve VenningPublisher Steve VenningWeight(grams) 231g

Political movements and citizens across the globe are increasingly challenging the traditional ways in which political authorities and governing bodies establish and maintain social control. This edited collection examines the intersections of social...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781479812165Author Christopher SloboginFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint New York University PressPublisher New York University PressWeight(grams) 152g

Political hackers, like the infamous Anonymous collective, have demonstrated their willingness to use political violence to further their agendas. However, many of their causes - targeting terrorist groups, fighting for LGBTQ+ rights, and protecting...

Data Justice and the Right to the City engages with theories of social justice and data-driven urbanism. It explores the intersecting concerns of data justice both the harms and civic possibilities of the datafied society and the right to the city ...

Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.

Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.

For much of the twentieth century, relations between Britain and the Soviet Union were defined by mutual hostility and distrust. From the Bolshevik Revolution until the end of the Cold War, the British establishment was deeply concerned about...

Rising prosperity was supposed to bring democracy to China, yet the Communist Party’s political monopoly endures. How? Minxin Pei looks to the surveillance state. Though renowned for high-tech repression, China’s surveillance system is above all a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262552578Author Bernard KeenanFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd