Download e-book for iPad: We Know All About You: The Story of Surveillance in Britain by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones

By Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones

we all know All approximately You indicates how bulk spying got here of age within the 19th century, and provides the 1st overarching narrative and interpretation of what has occurred seeing that, protecting the enterprises, courses, personalities, expertise, leaks, criticisms and reform. targeting the USA and Britain, it delves into the jobs of credits businesses, inner most detectives, and phone-hacking newshounds in addition to govt businesses just like the NSA and GCHQ, and
highlights malpractices comparable to the blacklist and unlawful digital interceptions. It demonstrates that numerous presidents - Franklin D. Roosevelt, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard M. Nixon - performed political surveillance, and the way British enterprises were less than a relentless cloud of suspicion for related reasons.

We understand All approximately You keeps with an account of the Nineteen Seventies leaks that exposed how the FBI and CIA saved tabs on anti-Vietnam struggle protestors, and assesses the reform impulse that started in the US and unfold to Britain. the tip of the chilly battle additional undermined self belief within the desire for surveillance, however it again with a vengeance after Sept. 11. The booklet indicates how reformers challenged that new expansionism, assesses the political effectiveness of the Snowden revelations, and offers
an appraisal of legislative tasks on either side of the Atlantic.

Micro-stories and personality sketches of people starting from Pinkerton detective James McParlan to contemporary whisteblowers light up the e-book. we all know All approximately You confirms that governments have a list of abusing surveillance powers as soon as granted, yet emphasizes that difficulties bobbing up from deepest region surveillance were fairly neglected.

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