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Technology of Oppression

Preserving Freedom and Dignity in an Age of Mass, Warrantless Surveillance

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  • © 2014

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  1. Elliot D. Cohen
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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction: Why Privacy Matters

    • Elliot D. Cohen
    Pages 1-9

  3. A History of the Mass Warrantless Surveillance Network

    • Elliot D. Cohen
    Pages 10-31

  4. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Law

    • Elliot D. Cohen
    Pages 32-46

  5. Network Searches and Applications

    • Elliot D. Cohen
    Pages 47-68

  6. Transparency of Policies and Practices

    • Elliot D. Cohen
    Pages 69-84

  7. Democracy in Cyberspace

    • Elliot D. Cohen
    Pages 85-98

  8. Next Generation Technologies

    • Elliot D. Cohen
    Pages 99-111

  9. The Technological Imperative

    • Elliot D. Cohen
    Pages 112-119

  10. Network Surveillance Regulations

    • Elliot D. Cohen
    Pages 120-127

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 128-146
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In the aftermath of the Edward Snowden leaks, the Obama administration has been hard pressed to yield to greater transparency and openness to constructive change. This book provides a catalyst toward greater transparency, increased public awareness of the urgent need for constructive change, and the insight into what such change would require.

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"Technology has long been touted as a great liberating tool that will improve life. Instead, as Elliot Cohen trenchantly details, invasive hi-technology has become a cancerous growth that invades privacy and creates a surveillance state. Fortunately, Cohen suggests strategies to rein in the perilous danger of a government that can monitor our every move - and perhaps soon our thoughts." Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout

"Technology of Oppression features the importance of preserving human freedom and dignity in the face of mass surveillance by governments and corporations. We are faced with the loss of nothing less than our cognitive liberty to be independent thinking human beings. Elliot Cohen is the Paul Revere of the 21st century and we all need to pay heed." Peter Phillips, Ph.D., President of the Media Freedom Foundation/Project Censored

"Today massive surveillance technologies threaten our privacy and our freedom. In this book, Elliot Cohen offers a set of workable, practical regulations to save us from a future that is almost too scary to imagine." James P. Sterba, University of Notre Dame, USA

About the author

Elliot D. Cohen, Ph.D. specializes in information technology and mass media ethics. His many published works include Mass Surveillance and State Control: The Total Information Awareness Project (2010). Author of several technology patents related to the protection of electronic privacy, he has written extensively on foreign intelligence surveillance law.

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