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GCDS-9780872865990 02 01 City Lights Books 01 GCOI 87286100948040 02 0872865991 03 9780872865990 15 9780872865990 BC 01 310 1 A01 Boghosian, Heidi Heidi Boghosian <p>Heidi Boghosian is the Executive Director of the National Lawyers Guild, a progressive Bar Association established in 1937. She co-hosts the weekly civil liberties radio program, "Law and Disorder," which airs on Pacifica's WBAI in New York and on over 50 national affiliate stations around the country. She has published numerous articles and reports on policing, protest, and the First Amendment, including <em>The Policing of Political Speech</em> (National Lawyers Guild 2010), <em>Applying Restraints to Private Police</em> (Missouri Law Review 2005), and <em>The Assault on Free Speech, Public Assembly, and Dissent</em> (North River Press 2004). Her book reviews have been published in <em>The Federal Lawyer</em> and the <em>New York Law Journal</em>. She received her JD from Temple Law School where she was editor-in-chief of the <em>Temple Political &amp; Civil Rights Law Review</em>. She also holds an MS from Boston University College of Communication and a BA from Brown University. She is admitted to practice law in Connecticut, New York, the Southern District of New York, and the U.S. Supreme Court. She lives in the East Village of New York.</p> 2 A23 Lapham, Lewis Lewis Lapham 01 eng 120 20 current events; politics; social sciences 01 <p>What does a Texas school district have in common with Macy's new shoe department? Both use Radio Frequency Identification, aptly nicknamed "spychips." Texas embeds them in students' ID cards; Macy's inserts them in thousands of shoes. Whether pinpointing grade-schoolers' whereabouts or shoppers' spending habits, each chip has a unique ID number, giving corporations and government agencies new ways to monitor individuals' behavior.</p><p>In <em>Spying on Democracy</em>, Heidi Boghosian documents the disturbing increase in surveillance of ordinary citizens. Many Americans might not realize the extent to which our government actively acquires personal information from telecommunications companies and other corporations about individuals who engage in lawful and constitutionally protected activities. <em>Spying</em> <em>on Democracy</em> reveals how technology is used to categorize and monitor people based on their activities, their associations, their movements, their purchases, and their perceived political beliefs. Corporations and government intelligence agencies mine data from sources as diverse as unmanned drones and video surveillance cameras, to iris scans and medical records, while accessing and combing websites, email lists, phone records and social media sites to create databases about "persons of interest." If the trend is permitted to continue, we will soon live in a society where nothing is confidential, no information is really secure, and our civil liberties are under constant surveillance and control.</p><p>An invaluable and accessible primer for anyone concerned with protecting privacy, freedom and the U.S. Constitution.</p> 02 Spying on US citizens is rising as corporations make big bucks selling info about our private lives to the government. 04 02 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100948040/images/87286100948040L.gif 07 02 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100948040/images/87286100948040S.gif http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100948040 City Lights Publishers 01 City Lights Publishers 02 20130801 08 16 oz