Surveillance Valley
Subtitle: The Secret Military History of the Internet
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 369
Description: "Starting in the early 1960s, there was fear in America about the proliferation of computer database and networking technologies. People worried that these systems were going to be used by both corporations and governments for surveillance and control. Indeed, the dominant cultural view at the time was that computers were tools of repression, not liberation -- and that included the ARPANET, the military research network that would grow into the Internet we use today. Surveillance Valley starts in the past, but moves into the present, looking at the private surveillance business that powers much of Silicon Valley and the overlap between the Internet and the military-industrial complex. It also investigates and uncovers the close ties that exist between U.S. intelligence agencies and the anti-government privacy movement that has sprung up in the wake of Edward Snowden's leaks. The Internet was developed as a weapon, and remains a weapon today. American military interests continue to dominate all parts of the network, even those that supposedly stand in opposition."--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: label: Part I
title: Lost History; label: Chapter 1
title: A New Kind of War; label: Chapter 2
title: Command, Control, and Counterinsurgency; label: Chapter 3
title: Spying on Americans; label: Part II
title: False Promises; label: Chapter 4
title: Utopia and Privatization; label: Chapter 5
title: Surveillance Inc.; label: Chapter 6
title: Edward Snowden’s Arms Race; label: Chapter 7
title: Internet Privacy, Funded by Spies; title: Epilogue: Mauthausen, Austria; title: Acknowledgments; title: About the Author; title: Notes; title: Index