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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Who are you? You are data about data. You are a map of connections--a culmination of everything you have ever posted, searched, emailed, liked, and followed. In this groundbreaking work of narrative nonfiction, Kerry Howley investigates the curious implications of living in the age of the indelible. Howley's subjects face a challenge new to history: they are imprisoned by their past selves, trapped for as long as the Internet endures. A soap opera...
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Language
English
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In 2013, twenty-nine-year-old Edward Snowden shocked the world when he broke with the American intelligence establishment and revealed that the United States government was secretly pursuing the means to collect every single phone call, text message, and email. The result would be an unprecedented system of mass surveillance with the ability to pry into the private lives of every person on earth. Six years later, Snowden reveals for the very first...
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Investigative reporter for The Guardian and bestselling author Glenn Greenwald, provides an in-depth look into the NSA scandal that has triggered a national debate over national security and information privacy. With further revelations from documents entrusted to Glenn Greenwald by Edward Snowden himself, this book explores the extraordinary cooperation between private industry and the NSA, and the far-reaching consequences of the government's surveillance...
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English
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Tom Mueller traces the rise of whistleblowing through a series of riveting cases drawn from the worlds of healthcare and other businesses, Wall Street, and Washington. Drawing on in-depth interviews with more than two hundred whistleblowers and the trailblazing lawyers who arm them for battle--plus politicians, intelligence analysts, government watchdogs, cognitive scientists, and other experts--Mueller anatomizes what inspires some to speak out while...
5) The insider
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
When former executive Jeffrey Wigand is fired by his employer, one of the largest tobacco companies in America, Wigand agrees to become a paid consultant for a story by veteran 60 minutes producer Lowell Bergman, regarding alleged unethical practices within the tobacco industry. But what begins as a temporary alliance leads to a lengthy battle for both men to save their reputations and more.
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Language
English
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Description
In this explosive memoir, Kaiser reveals the disturbing truth about the multi-billion-dollar data industry, revealing how companies are getting richer using our personal information and exposing how Cambridge Analytica exploited weaknesses in privacy laws to help elect Donald Trump--and how this could easily happen again in the 2020 presidential election.
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"9/11 not only marked the worst domestic terror attack in U.S. history, but also unleashed electronic spying by the government on a massive worldwide scale. In a wholly original and engaging telling, Verax ("truth-teller" and one of Edward Snowden's code names) recounts the full story of American electronic surveillance post 9/11, in brilliant comics form" -- provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Bold Type Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"In 2015, Jeffrey Sterling was sentenced to prison, convicted of violating the Espionage Act. Sterling, it is now clear, was another victim of our government's draconian crackdown on alleged leakers and whistleblowers. Sterling grew up in a small, segregated town in Missouri and jumped at the chance to broaden his world and serve his country, first in law school and later in the CIA. After an impressive career, Sterling's progress came to a sudden...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Formats
Description
From Steve Sheinkin, the award-winning author of The Port Chicago 50 and Bomb comes a tense, exciting exploration of what the Times deemed "the greatest story of the century": how Daniel Ellsberg transformed from obscure government analyst into "the most dangerous man in America," and risked everything to expose the government's deceit. On June 13, 1971, the front page of the New York Times announced the existence of a 7,000-page collection of documents...
11) Snowden
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
An employee of the National Security Agency leaks their illegal surveillance techniques to the public by distributing thousands of classified documents to the press.
Author
Publisher
City Lights Publishers
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
""Mel Goodman has spent the last few decades telling us what's gone wrong with American intelligence and the American military. he is also telling us how to save ourselves."--Seymour M. Hersh, The New Yorker "Whistleblower at the CIA offers a fascinating glimpse into the secret, behind-the-scenes world of U.S. intelligence. Melvin A. Goodman's first-person account of the systematic manipulation of intelligence at the CIA underscores why whistleblowing...
13) Citizenfour
Publisher
RADiUS TWC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
With unprecedented access, this gripping behind-the-scenes chronicle follows award winning director Laura Poitras and journalist Glenn Greenwald's remarkable encounters with whistle-blower Edward Snowden in a hotel room in Hong Kong, as he hands over classified documents that provide evidence of mass indiscriminate and illegal invasions of privacy by the NSA.
14) Snowden
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Based off the books by Luke Harding, The Snowden Flies, and Time of the Octopus by Anatoly Kucherena. The NSA's illegal surveillance techniques are leaked to the public by an agency employee. With thousands of classified documents distributed to the press, he is now a traitor to some and a hero to others, but now he is a fugitive from the law.
"...a riveting procedural docudrama that takes a deep dive into what surveillance has become."--Variety
"...It's...
15) National bird
Publisher
[Ten Forward Films]
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The harrowing journey of three U.S. military veterans who became whistleblowers, determined to break the silence surrounding America's secret drone war. Tortured by guilt for their participation in the killing of faceless terror suspects, and despite the threat of being prosecuted, these three veterans offer an unprecedented look inside this secret program to reveal the haunting cost of America's global drone strikes.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
1120L
Language
English
Description
"In 2013, Edward Snowden shocked the world when he broke with the American intelligence establishment and revealed that the United States government was secretly pursuing the means to collect every single phone call, text message, and email. The result would be an unprecedented system of mass surveillance with the ability to pry into the private lives of every person on earth. Six years later, the man who risked everything to expose the US government's...
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