The Hidden History of Big Brother in America: How the Death of Privacy and the Rise of Surveillance Threaten Us and Our Democracy
From the publisher's website:
Most Americans are worried about how companies like Facebook invade
their privacy and harvest their data, but many people don't fully
understand the details of how their information is being adapted and
misused. In this thought-provoking and accessible book, Thom Hartmann
reveals exactly how the government and corporations are tracking our
every online move and using our data to buy elections, employ social
control, and monetize our lives.
Hartmann uses extensive, vivid
examples to highlight the consequences of Big Data on all aspects of our
lives. He traces the history of surveillance and social control,
looking back to how Big Brother invented whiteness to keep order and how
surveillance began to be employed as a way to modify behavior. As he
states, “The goal of those who violate privacy and use
surveillance is almost always social control and behavior
modification.”
Along with covering the history,
Hartmann shows how we got to where we are today, how China-with its new
Social Credit System-serves as a warning, and how we can and must avoid a
similarly dystopian future. By delving into the Constitutional right to
privacy, Hartmann reminds us of our civil right and shows how we can
restore it.
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