'Angwin elegantly chronicles this tragedy of the digital commons at the level of policy and our individual civil liberties. 'Angwin's warning that 'information is power' resonates.' - The Daily Beast Dragnet Nation moves right to the top of the list of books we should all read about privacy.' - Salon 'A deeply researched book that is completely of the moment. antidote to Big Brother's big chill.' - Bill Moyers 'I read Julia Angwin's new book Dragnet Nation. A useful, well-reported study.' - The Los Angeles Times she performs a herculean effort to regain her privacy. aims to illuminate the costs of living with systems that track nearly everything we do, think or say. Angwin, a Wall Street Journal reporter who along with her colleagues has produced essential reporting on privacy and security. 'Welcome to life in a society of ubiquitous surveillance, tracking and data mining. Her book is a cautionary tale for all of us, with profound implications for our values, our society, and our very selves. Appalled at such a prospect, Angwin conducts a series of experiments to try to protect herself, ranging from quitting Google to carrying a burner phone, showing how difficult it is for an average citizen to resist the dragnets' reach. In a world where we can be watched in our own homes, where we can no longer keep secrets, and where we can be impersonated, financially manipulated, or even placed in a police lineup, Angwin argues that the greatest long-term danger is that we start to internalize the surveillance and censor our words and thoughts, until we lose the very freedom that makes us unique individuals. In Dragnet Nation, award-winning investigative journalist Julia Angwin reports from the front lines of America's surveillance economy, offering a revelatory and unsettling look at how the government, private companies, and even criminals use technology to indiscriminately sweep up vast amounts of our personal data. And the federal government, we recently learned, has been conducting a massive data-gathering surveillance operation across the Internet and on our phone lines. Our smartphones and cars transmit our location, enabling us to know what's in the neighborhood but also enabling others to track us. We see online ads from websites we've visited, long after we've moved on to other interests.

An inside look at who's watching you, what they know and why it matters.

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