Surveillance After Snowden by David Lyon


Surveillance After Snowden
Title : Surveillance After Snowden
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ISBN : 0745690858
ISBN-10 : 9780745690858
Language : English
Format Type : Paperback
Number of Pages : 120
Publication : First published June 5, 2015

In 2013, Edward Snowden revealed that the NSA and its partners had been engaging in warrantless mass surveillance, using the internet and cellphone data, and driven by fear of terrorism under the sign of 'security'. In this compelling account, surveillance expert David Lyon guides the reader through Snowden's ongoing disclosures: the technological shifts involved, the steady rise of invisible monitoring of innocent citizens, the collusion of government agencies and for-profit companies and the implications for how we conceive of privacy in a democratic society infused by the lure of big data. Lyon discusses the distinct global reactions to Snowden and shows why some basic issues must be faced: how we frame surveillance, and the place of the human in a digital world. Surveillance after Snowden is crucial reading for anyone interested in politics, technology and society.

Surveillance After Snowden Reviews

  • Miracle Jones

    Inessential, but somewhat thought-provoking if you aren't afraid to let your mind wander while reading. It could have used more specifics with respect to how the surveillance state has evolved: the actual history and actual personalities involved. Might I recommend that you read Fred Kaplan's "Dark Territory" instead? This is a slender book with more air than earth. The book seems to presuppose only authoritarian invasions with respect to how surveillance might be abused, ignoring banal human cruelty, blackmail, basic corruption, sex, obsession, and the addictive powers of special knowledge.

  • K

    It was very dry and factual (written very much like an academic paper but in book form), and perhaps if you didn’t know much about the subject it would be good. Having read No Place To Hide, The Snowden Files, etc. however, I didn’t find a whole lot of value in this book.

  • Constanza

    I was bored while I was reading the book. The book does a great job of describing what surveillance is and how the NSA collects information, but the book didn't offer any interesting insight on this topic.