Surveillance valley : the secret military history of the Internet
Levine, Yasha2019
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As the Cambridge Analytica scandal has shown, private corporations consider it their right to use our data (and by extension, us) which ever way they see fit. Looking at the hidden origins of many internet corporations and platforms, Levine shows that this is a function, not a bug of the online experience. Beginning as a surveillance tool developed by ARPA for the Vietnam War, the internet has become essential to our lives. Despite repeated revelations of hacks, malware, government surveillance and corporate corruption, however, few of us stop to consider that the internet was developed, from the outset, as a weapon.
Main title:
Author:
Levine, Yasha, author
Imprint:
London : Icon, 2019.
Collation:
ix, 371 pages ; 22 cm
Notes:
Originally published: New York: PublicAffairs, 2018.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781785784781 (pbk)
Dewey class:
355.34320285355.3432355.343
LC class:
UB251.U6
Local class:
355.3432355.343
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2396609