Beyond Snowden: Privacy, Mass Surveillance, and the Struggle to Reform the NSA
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| Rating | : | 4.46 (786 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01NAXEPQS |
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| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-07-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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In the twenty first century, the only way to protect our privacy as Americans is to do a better job of protecting everyone’s privacy. While Edward Snowden began the process in 2013 with his leaks of top secret documents, the Obama administration’s own reforms have also helped bring the National Security Agency and its programs of signals intelligence collection out of the shadows. The United States already leads the world in mass surveillance. Although the NSA and other agencies already comply with rules intended to prevent them from spying on Americans, Edgar argues that the rulesmost of which date from the 1970sare inadequate for this century. The real question is: What should we do about mass surveillance?Timothy Edgar, a long-time civil liberties activist who worked inside the intelligence community for six years during the Bush and Obama administrations, believes that the NSA’s programs are profound threat to the privacy of everyone in the world. At the same time, he argues that mass surveillance programs can be made consistent
Amid the white heat of our national debate over surveillance, Timothy Edgar provides an insightful perspective that few Americans have had. He is the outsider who defended privacy while working for the American Civil Liberties Union, and also the insider who became a senior White House adviser. InBeyond Snowden, he shows Americans how we can strike the fair balance between privacy and security that we all seek.Stephen Kinzer, Senior Fellow, Watson Institute, Brown University, and author of The Brothers:John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and The