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The Thought Police - Nonfiction

Companion books to George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four where the "thought police" maintained a constant presence - surveillance and monitoring of one's every move and thought.

City of Quartz by Mike Davis. 307.760979494 D295c

Corporateering: How Corporate Power Steals Your Personal Freedom -- And What You Can Do About It by Jamie Court. 364.168 C835c

Cyber Rights:  Defending Free Speech in the Digital Age by Mike Godwin. 342.730853 G549c 2003

Database Nation: The Death of Privacy in the 21st Century by Simson Garfinkel. 323. 4480973 G18d

Friendly Fascism: The New Face of Power in America by Bertram Gross. 320.973G914f

Gag Rule:  On the Stifling of Dissent and the Suppression of Democracy by Lewis H. Lapham.

How Would a Patriot Act?:  Defending American Values from a President Run Amok by Glenn Greenwald. 973.931 G855h

Legal Authorities Supporting the Activities of the National Security Agency Described by the President [electronic resource] / U.S. Department of Justice.

The Naked Employee: How Technology is Compromising Workplace Privacy by Frederick S. Lane III. 331.011 L241n

No Place to Hide:  Behind the Scenes of our Emerging Surveillance Society by Robert O'Harrow, Jr. 303. 48330973 Oh1n

Political Repression in Modern America by Robert J. Goldstein. 323.40973G578p

Privacy Lost:  How Technology is Endangering Your Privacy by David H. Holtzman . 323.448 H746p

Prying Eyes: Protect Your Privacy from People Who Sell to You, Snoop on You, and Steal from You by Eric J. Gertler. 323.44830973 G328p

Refuge of a Scoundrel:  The Patriot Act in Libraries by Herbert N. Foerstel. 344. 73092 F685r

Report from the Field:  The USA Patriot Act at Work by U.S. Department of Justice. 363.320973 R299r

Shouting Fire:  Civil Liberties in a Turbulent Age by Alan M. Dershowitz. 323.01 D448s

The Soft Cage: Surveillance in America from Slavery to the War on Terror by Christian Parenti. 303. 330973 P215s

Speaking Freely:  Trials of the First Amendment by Floyd Abrams. 342.730853 Ab83s

Spychips: How Major Corporations and Government Plan to Track Your Every Move with RFID by Katherine Albrecht and Liz McIntyre. 323.4482 Al15s

The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Privacy and Freedom? by David Brin. 323.448 B77t

Torture and Truth: America, Abu Ghraib, and the War on Terror by Mark Danner. 956. 704437 D233t

U.S. National Debate Topic, 2005-2006: U.S. Civil Liberties edited by Lara Weibgen. 342. 73085 Un3u

The Unwanted Gaze: The Destruction of Privacy in America by Jeffrey Rosen ; with a new afterword by the author. 342. 730858 R722u 2001

Welcome to the Machine:  Science, Surveillance, and the Culture of Control by Derrick Jensen, George Draffan. 303.4834 J453w

World without Secrets:  Business, Crime, and Privacy in the Age of Ubiquitous Computing by Richard Hunter. 303. 4833 H918w



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