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The Soft Cage: Surveillance in America, from Slavery to the War on Terror

The Soft Cage: Surveillance in America, from Slavery to the War on Terror

Parenti, Christian

Paperback

General United States HistoryGeneral World HistoryInternational Relations

ISBN10: 0465054854
ISBN13: 9780465054855
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: Nov 1 2004
Pages: 273
Weight: 0.81
Height: 0.76 Width: 5.80 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
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 centuries-from controlling slaves in the old South to implementing early criminal justice and tracking immigrants. Parenti explores the role computers are playing in creating a whole new world of seemingly benign technologies-such as credit cards, website cookies, and electronic toll collection-that have expanded this trend in the twenty-first century. The Soft Cage offers a compelling, vitally important history lesson for every American concerned about the expansion of surveillance into our public and private lives.

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