Chatter
Subtitle: dispatches from the secret world of global eavesdropping
By: Patrick Radden Keefe
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9781400060344
Subjects: Intelligence service; Eavesdropping; Inlichtingendiensten; Civil rights; Afluisteren; Service des renseignements; Droits de l'homme; Wiretapping; Écoute électronique; Opsporingsonderzoek
Description: A look inside the secret world of the American intelligence establishment and its link to the global eavesdropping network "Echelon" assesses how much privacy Americans have unwittingly sacrificed in favor of national security.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-279) and index.
Table of contents: title: Radomes in the desert, radomes on the moor: the invisible architecture of echelon; title: The leak was me: listening to diplomats; title: Footprints of freedom: a constellation of bases; title: Black phone/gray phone: the hazards of secrecy; title: Goliath protests: making sense of signals; title: Rogue elephant on a rampage: privacy on the line; title: Voices in the dark: muckrakers, whistleblowers; title: Toothless talking shop: the European Parliament investigates; title: The jihad phone: listening to terrorists.