Best Politics of Privacy & Surveillance Books
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1. The War on Cash: How Banks and a Power-Hungry Government Want to Confiscate Your Cash, Steal Your Liberty and Track Every Dollar You Spend. And How to Fight Back.
Author: by David McRee
Published at: Humanix Books (June 23, 2020)
ISBN: 978-1630061531
The War on Cash: How Banks and a Power-Hungry Government Want to Confiscate Your Cash, Steal Your Liberty and Track Every Dollar You Spend. And How to Fight Back is a wake-up call to every one about the tactics being used by governments to restrict the public’s use of cash and to abuse the laws for its own purposes.
Powerful forces are threatening your financial freedom. All over the world, including in the United States of America, governments, certain academics, banks and non-governmental organizations (nonprofits) are working in a coordinated way to stop you from using cash. The War on Cash is a shocking look into the banks and power-hungry government plans to confiscate your cash, steal your liberty, and track every dollar you spend.
AND HOW TO FIGHT BACK!
2. Permanent Record
Author: by Edward Snowden
Published at: Picador Paper (September 1, 2020)
ISBN: 978-1250772909
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEREdward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government’s system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first time the story of his life, including how he helped to build that system and what motivated him to try to bring it down.
In 2013, twenty-nine-year-old Edward Snowden shocked the world when he broke with the American intelligence establishment and revealed that the United States government was secretly pursuing the means to collect every single phone call, text message, and email. The result would be an unprecedented system of mass surveillance with the ability to pry into the private lives of every person on earth.
Six years later, Snowden reveals for the very first time how he helped to build this system and why he was moved to expose it. Spanning the bucolic Beltway suburbs of his childhood and the clandestine CIA and NSA postings of his adulthood, Permanent Record is the extraordinary account of a bright young man who grew up onlinea man who became a spy, a whistleblower, and, in exile, the Internet’s conscience.
3. Battle Hymn: Revelations of the Sinister Plan for a New World Order
Author: by John Scura
Published at: Black Rose Writing; First Printing ed. edition (January 12, 2021)
ISBN: 978-1612960432
A book that I highly recommend. A well-written book with lots of important information.John B. Wells, Coast to Coast AMThis book presents frightening facts that will shake many of your deepest beliefs to the core. A dark plan put into place centuries ago has come to fruition.
Consider Battle Hymn your wake-up call. Painstakingly researched through hundreds of sources and interviews, Battle Hymn rips the cover off the invisible government that controls our leaders and soon, our very lives. Composed of just a few hundred powerful but unelected people, an elite cadre seeks to create a one-world government to complete its already advanced globalist plans to end the sovereignty of all nationsincluding the United States.
Its ultimate goal is complete control through a New World Order where a socialist dictatorship ensures that every citizen is tagged, mollified, and productive.
4. If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future
Author: by Jill Lepore
Published at: Liveright; Illustrated edition (September 15, 2020)
ISBN: 978-1631496103
Longlisted National Book Award (Nonfiction) Best Books of 2020 Financial Times Best Books of Fall 2020: O, The Oprah Magazine, The Observer, Boston. Com Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2020: TIMEA revelatory account of the Cold War origins of the data-mad, algorithmic twenty-first century, from the author of the acclaimed international bestseller These Truths.
The Simulmatics Corporation, launched during the Cold War, mined data, targeted voters, manipulated consumers, destabilized politics, and disordered knowledgedecades before Facebook, Google, and Cambridge Analytica. Jill Lepore, best-selling author of These Truths, came across the company’s papers in MIT’s archives and set out to tell this forgotten history, the long-lost backstory to the methods, and the arrogance, of Silicon Valley.
Founded in 1959 by some of the nation’s leading social scientiststhe best and the brightest, fatally brilliant, Icaruses with wings of feathers and wax, flying to the sunSimulmatics proposed to predict and manipulate the future by way of the computer simulation of human behavior.
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The Hacker and the State: Cyber Attacks and the New Normal of Geopolitics
Author: by Ben Buchanan
Published at: Harvard University Press (February 25, 2020)
ISBN: 978-0674987555
One of the finest books on information security published so far in this centuryeasily accessible, tightly argued, superbly well-sourced, intimidatingly perceptive. Thomas Rid, author of Active MeasuresThe best examination I have read of how increasingly dramatic developments in cyberspace are defining the new normal’ of geopolitics in the digital age.
Buchanancaptures the dynamics of all of this truly brilliantly. General David Petraeus, former Director of the CIA and Commander of Coalition Forces in Iraq and AfghanistanFew national-security threats are as potentor as nebulousas cyber attacks. Ben Buchanan reveals how hackers are transforming spycraft and statecraft, catching us all in the crossfire, whether we know it or not.
Ever since WarGames, we have been bracing for the cyberwar to come, conjuring images of exploding power plants and mass panic. But while cyber attacks are now disturbingly common, they don’t look anything like we thought they would. Packed with insider information based on interviews, declassified files, and forensic analysis of company reports, The Hacker and the State sets aside fantasies of cyber-annihilation to explore the real geopolitical competition of the digital age.
6. No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State
Author: by Glenn Greenwald
Published at: Metropolitan Books; 0 edition (May 13, 2014)
ISBN: 978-1627790734
The New York Times BestsellerIn May 2013, Glenn Greenwald set out for Hong Kong to meet an anonymous source who claimed to have astonishing evidence of pervasive government spying and insisted on communicating only through heavily encrypted channels. That source turned out to be the 29-year-old NSA contractor and whistleblower Edward Snowden, and his revelations about the agency’s widespread, systemic overreach proved to be some of the most explosive and consequential news in recent history, triggering a fierce debate over national security and information privacy.
As the arguments rage on and the government considers various proposals for reform, it is clear that we have yet to see the full impact of Snowden’s disclosures. Now for the first time, Greenwald fits all the pieces together, recounting his high-intensity ten-day trip to Hong Kong, examining the broader implications of the surveillance detailed in his reporting for The Guardian, and revealing fresh information on the NSA’s unprecedented abuse of power with never-before-seen documents entrusted to him by Snowden himself.
7. Deepfakes: The Coming Infocalypse
Author: by Nina Schick
Published at: Twelve; Illustrated edition (August 25, 2020)
ISBN: 978-1538754306
Everything you need to know about “deepfakes” and what could become the biggest information and communications meltdown in world history. In a world of deepfakes, it will soon be impossible to tell what is real and what isn’t. As advances in artificial intelligence, video creation, and online trolling continue, deepfakes pose not only a real threat to democracy – they threaten to take voter manipulation to unprecedented new heights.
This crisis of misinformation which we now face has since been dubbed the “Infocalypse.”In DEEPFAKES, investigative journalist Nina Schick uses her expertise from working in the field to reveal shocking examples of deepfakery and explain the dangerous political consequences of the Infocalypse, both in terms of national security and what it means for public trust in politics.
This all-too-timely book also unveils what this all means for us as individuals, how deepfakes will be used to intimidate and to silence, for revenge and fraud, and just how truly unprepared governments and tech companies are for what’s coming.
8. Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the American Surveillance State
Author: by Barton Gellman
Published at: Penguin Press (May 19, 2020)
ISBN: 978-1594206016
Engrossing….Gellman [is] a thorough, exacting reporter … A marvelous narrator for this particular story, as he nimbly guides us through complex technical arcana and some stubborn ethical questions…. Dark Mirror would be simply pleasurable to read if the story it told didn’t also happen to be frighteningly real.
Jennifer Szalai, The New York TimesFrom the three-time Pulitzer Prize winner and author of the New York Times bestseller Angler, the definitive master narrative of Edward Snowden and the modern surveillance state, based on unique access to Snowden and groundbreaking reportage around the world.
Edward Snowden touched off a global debate in 2013 when he gave Barton Gellman, Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald each a vast and explosive archive of highly classified files revealing the extent of the American government’s access to our every communication.
They shared the Pulitzer Prize that year for public service. For Gellman, who never stopped reporting, that was only the beginning. He jumped off from what Snowden gave him to track the reach and methodology of the U.S. Surveillance state and bring it to light with astonishing new clarity.
9. Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet
Author: by Yasha Levine
Published at: PublicAffairs; Illustrated edition (February 6, 2018)
ISBN: 978-1610398022
The internet is the most effective weapon the government has ever built. In this fascinating book, investigative reporter Yasha Levine uncovers the secret origins of the internet, tracing it back to a Pentagon counterinsurgency surveillance project. A visionary intelligence officer, William Godel, realized that the key to winning the war in Vietnam was not outgunning the enemy, but using new information technology to understand their motives and anticipate their movements.
This idea – using computers to spy on people and groups perceived as a threat, both at home and abroad – drove ARPA to develop the internet in the 1960s, and continues to be at the heart of the modern internet we all know and use today.
As Levine shows, surveillance wasn’t something that suddenly appeared on the internet; it was woven into the fabric of the technology. But this isn’t just a story about the NSA or other domestic programs run by the government. As the book spins forward in time, Levine examines the private surveillance business that powers tech-industry giants like Google, Facebook, and Amazon, revealing how these companies spy on their users for profit, all while doing double duty as military and intelligence contractors.
10. Messing with the Enemy: Surviving in a Social Media World of Hackers, Terrorists, Russians, and Fake News
Author: by Clint Watts
Published at: Harper Paperbacks; Reprint edition (June 4, 2019)
ISBN: 978-0062795991
A former FBI Special Agent and leading cyber-security expert offers a devastating and essential look at the misinformation campaigns, fake news, and electronic espionage operations that have become the cutting edge of modern warfareand how we can protect ourselves and our country against them.
Clint Watts electrified the nation when he testified in front of the House Intelligence Committee regarding Russian interference in the 2016 election. In Messing with the Enemy, the cyber and homeland security expert introduces us to a frightening world in which terrorists and cyber criminals don’t hack your computer, they hack your mind.
Watts reveals how these malefactors use your information and that of your friends and family to work for them through social media, which they use to map your social networks, scour your world affiliations, and master your fears and preferences.
Thanks to the schemes engineered by social media manipulators using you and your information, business executives have coughed up millions in fraudulent wire transfers, seemingly good kids have joined the Islamic State, and staunch anti-communist Reagan Republicans have cheered the Russian government’s hacking of a Democratic presidential candidate’s e-mails.
12. The CIA World Factbook 2020-2021
Author: by Central Intelligence Agency
Published at: Skyhorse; 2020-2021 ed. edition (June 2, 2020)
ISBN: 978-1510758254
From the world’s most sophisticated intelligence gathering organization, here is the CIA’s official country-by-country data on nations around the world. From Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, The CIA World Factbook 2020-2021 offers complete and up-to-date information on the world’s nations. This comprehensive guide is packed with data on the politics, populations, military expenditures, and economics of 2020 and looks ahead to 2021.
For each country, The CIA World Factbook 2020-2021 includes:Detailed maps with new geopolitical dataStatistics on the population of each country, with details on literacy rates, HIV prevalence, and age structureNew data on military expenditures and capabilitiesInformation on each country’s climate and natural hazardsDetails on prominent political parties and contact information for diplomatic consultationFacts on transportation and communication infrastructureAlso included are appendixes with useful abbreviations, international environmental agreements, international organizations and groups, weight and measure conversions, and more.
13. A Lie Too Big to Fail: The Real History of the Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy
Author: by LIsa Pease
Published at: Feral House (December 18, 2018)
ISBN: 978-1627310703
In A Lie Too Big to Fail, longtime Kennedy researcher (of both JFK and RFK) Lisa Pease lays out, in meticulous detail, how witnesses with evidence of conspiracy were silenced by the Los Angeles Police Department; how evidence was deliberately altered and, in some instances, destroyed; and how the justice system and the media failed to present the truth of the case to the public.
Pease reveals how the trial was essentially a sham, and how the prosecution did not dare to follow where the evidence led. A Lie Too Big to Fail asserts the idea that a government can never investigate itself in a crime of this magnitude.
Was the convicted Sirhan Sirhan a willing participant? Or was he a mind-controlled assassin? It has fallen to independent researchers like Pease to lay out the evidence in a clear and concise manner, allowing readers to form their theories about this event.
Pease places the history of this event in the context of the era and provides shocking overlaps between other high-profile murders and attempted murders of the time. Lisa Pease goes further than anyone else in proving who likely planned the assassination, who the assassination team members were, and why Kennedy was deemed such a threat that he had to be taken out before he became President of the United States.
