American Spies: Modern Surveillance, Why You Should Care, and What to Do About it

Law

American Spies: Modern Surveillance, Why You Should Care, and What to Do About it

By Jennifer Granick
Cambridge University Press January 2017

Specifications

ISBN-13
9781107103238
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication
January 2017
Format
Hardback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

Also available as

Paperback

Details

US intelligence agencies - the eponymous American spies - are exceedingly aggressive, pushing and sometimes bursting through the technological, legal and political boundaries of lawful surveillance. Written for a general audience by a surveillance law expert, this book educates readers about how the reality of modern surveillance differs from popular understanding. Weaving the history of American surveillance - from J. Edgar Hoover through the tragedy of September 11th to the fusion centers and mosque infiltrators of today - the book shows that mass surveillance and democracy are fundamentally incompatible. Granick shows how surveillance law has fallen behind while surveillance technology has given American spies vast new powers. She skillfully guides the reader through proposals for reining in massive surveillance with the ultimate goal of surveillance reform.

Table of Contents

1. Modern surveillance: massive, classified, and indiscriminate
2. Word games
3. Snowden, surveillance whistleblowers, and democracy
4. We kill people based on metadata
5. The shadow of September 11th
6. Modern surveillance and counterterrorism
7. Americans caught up in the foreign intelligence net
8. Warrantless wiretapping of Americans under Section 702
9. Nothing to hide?: a short history of surveillance abuses
10. The minimal comfort of minimization
11. Do unto others: why Americans should protect foreigners' privacy rights
12. US surveillance law before September 11th
13. American spies after September 11th: illegality and legalism
14. Modern surveillance and the Fourth Amendment
15. The failures of external oversight
16. The National InSecurity Agency
17. The future of surveillance.
HKD 983.58 −3%
HKD 1,014.00

Inclusive of HK delivery

Ready to ship
Delivery Time: around 4-5 weeks
Extra 10 working days if shipping address outside Hong Kong
  • Free HK shipping over HK$1,000
  • International shipping to 35+ countries
Order Form
Save

Recommended

You may also be interested in these books:

More titles from Law

View all
Constitutional Law of Canada: 2021 Student Edition
The Carswell Company Ltd.

Constitutional Law of Canada: 2021 Student Edition

Peter W. Hogg; Wade Wright
Japan Staff Employment Law Guide, 1st Edition
CCH Japan

Japan Staff Employment Law Guide, 1st Edition

Hideki Thurgood Kano
HKD 1,750.00
Peacemaking, Power-sharing and International Law: Imperfect Peace
Hart Publishing

Peacemaking, Power-sharing and International Law: Imperfect Peace

Martin Wahlisch
HKD 453.83
Social Rights and the Constitutional Moment: Learning from Chile and International Experiences
Hart Publishing

Social Rights and the Constitutional Moment: Learning from Chile and International Experiences

Koldo Casla; Vicente Silva; Valentina Contreras
HKD 1,197.95
Courts and Democracies in Asia
Cambridge University Press

Courts and Democracies in Asia

Po Jen Yap
HKD 428.74
American Presidents, Deportations, and Human Rights Violations: From Carter to Trump
Cambridge University Press

American Presidents, Deportations, and Human Rights Violations: From Carter to Trump

Bill Ong Hing
HKD 353.08