- Paperback: 368 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; Reprint edition (6 April 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0141024836
- ISBN-13: 978-0141024837
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 643,233 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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In this chilling narrative, award-winning "Washington Post" reporter Robert O'Harrow uncovers the frightening new alliance between government and business - the security - industrial complex. For years private companies have gathered all kinds of information about consumers and sold it for profit. Since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, they have sold it to the government. In return, they have received vastly expanded resources and freedom from legal restraint. Every aspect of our lives is now recorded and tracked. For us there is literally No Place to Hide.
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Robert O'Harrow is a reporter at The Washington Post and an associate of the Center for Investigative Reporting. He was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for articles he wrote about privacy and technology. He lives in Arlington, Virginia.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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Excellent overview and look at the surveillance society in America, and what happens there usually exports itself eventually.This is a thorough going analysis into all sorts of datbases and surveillance operations, I had no clue before I read this book that it had gone so far.
The worrying thing that keeps cropping up is that 1)the information gleaned about us is often inacurrate leading to all sorts of problems with poor credit ratings, false arrests etc and 2) worse still it has made identity theft 'a walk in the park' for the increasingly techno savy 'ner-do-wells' who commit their crimes in your name; and if you get the blame for it, dont expect the legal system to clear your name with a quick explanation to a judge as it would seem they'd rather believe faulty data base information than your word.
The worrying thing that keeps cropping up is that 1)the information gleaned about us is often inacurrate leading to all sorts of problems with poor credit ratings, false arrests etc and 2) worse still it has made identity theft 'a walk in the park' for the increasingly techno savy 'ner-do-wells' who commit their crimes in your name; and if you get the blame for it, dont expect the legal system to clear your name with a quick explanation to a judge as it would seem they'd rather believe faulty data base information than your word.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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My best friend has recommended that book to me as worth to read it and interesting. I found it quite boring and not easy to read. It is written by specyfic american language, quite hard to understand for forginers. Won't give my rate, because had some trouble with language. Try it yourself.
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