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Until the watershed drip of top-secret documents by Edward Snowden to The Guardian (UK) and The Washington Post, most Americans didn't realize the extent to which our authorities is actively acquiring private information from telecommunications companies and other companies. As made startlingly clear, the National Security Company (NSA) has gathered home elevators every phone call Americans have made within the last seven years. For the reason that same time, the NSA and the FBI have gained the ability to access emails, images, audio and training video chats, and extra content from Yahoo, Facebook, Yahoo, Microsoft, YouTube, Skype, Apple, and more, allegedly to be able to track foreign goals. In Spying on Democracy, National Lawyers Guild executive director Heidi Boghosian documents the disturbing increase in security of ordinary citizens and the danger it poses to your personal privacy, our civil liberties, and the future of democracy itself. Boghosian shows how technology is being used to categorize and monitor people based on their associations, their actions, their acquisitions, and their perceived political beliefs. She shows how companies and government cleverness organizations mine data from resources as diverse as security cams, unmanned drones, iris scans, and medical documents while combing websites, email, phone records, and communal multimedia for resale to third gatherings, including US cleverness organizations. The ACLU's Michael German says of the illustrations shown in Boghosian's booklet, "This unrestrained spying is inevitably used to reduce the most essential tools of democracy: the press, politics activists, civil rights advocates, and conscientious insiders who blow the whistle on corporate malfeasance and authorities maltreatment." Boghosian adds, "In case the trend is allowed to continue, we will soon reside in a society where nothing is private, no information is very secure, and our civil liberties are under constant security and control." Spying on Democracy is a timely, priceless, and accessible primer for anybody concerned with safeguarding privacy, liberty, and the US Constitution. Heidi Boghosian is the executive director of the National Solicitors Guild. She cohosts Laws and Disorder, broadcast on WBAI-FM in New York and over 40 channels nationwide. She is based in New York City.
