Mass Surveillance and State Control The Total Information Awareness Project [Hardcover]

This book details the factors contributing to the degenerative trend of mass, warrantless government surveillance which imperils civil liberties, and specifies recommendations for constructive change. It also provides a platform for grassroots efforts to stop the decline before it is too late.Warrantless, Mass Surveillance in a Culture of Control Post 9-11 America's Culture of Control The Total Information Awareness Project Legal Pretexts for Continuing the TIA Project Ignorance is Strength:?Complicity of the Corporate Media and Telecom Behemoths The Tenuous Future of Net Neutrality Peace is War: the War on Terrorism Freedom is Slavery:?Giving up your Civil Liberties as the Price of Freedom RFID Tags to NanoTech Surveillance:?The Next Orwellian Frontier Becoming a Culture of Autonomy:?Change we can Believe in

In our increasingly connected world, our daily patterns of behavior on issues important and trivial, both public and personal, are increasingly open to surveillance and observation by those we allow and those we might not. As Elliot D. Cohen explores in his interesting new book, when talking about the government role in this space, we've moved past the question of 'can' and into the realm of 'should?' Ignorance is no longer an option on this crucial topic, as the debate Cohen explores cuts to the heart of rights and notions of good citizenship in the twenty-first century. - Peter W. Singer, Senior Fellow and Director, 21st Century Defense Initiative, The Brookings Institution

In Mass Surveillance and State Control, Elliot D. Cohen delivers a masterpiece of academic research, documentation, and understanding. His central thesis is that people's personal liberty and privacy are under siege by a powerful network of transnational political, corporate, media, and military elites, who are seeking nothing less than total domination of the world. To achieve that end these power elites are using national security and the global war on terrorl3+