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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781758903321

Autore

Chesterman Simon

Titolo

One nation under surveillance [[electronic resource] ] : a new social contract to defend freedom without sacrificing liberty / / Simon Chesterman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2011

ISBN

1-283-34839-X

9786613348395

0-19-161293-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (310 p.)

Disciplina

323.4482

Soggetti

Electronic surveillance - Social aspects

Intelligence service - Social aspects

National security

National security - Social aspects

Liberty

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-284) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Abbreviations; Introduction: The End of Privacy; PART I. THEORY; PART II. PRACTICE; PART III. CHANGE; Select Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

What limits, if any, should be placed on a government's efforts to spy on its citizens in the name of national security? Spying on foreigners has long been regarded as an unseemly but necessary enterprise. Spying on one's own citizens in a democracy, by contrast, has historically been subject to various forms of legal and political restraint. For most of the twentieth century these regimes were kept distinct. That position is no longer tenable. Modern threats do not respect national borders. Changes in technology make it impractical to distinguish between 'foreign' and 'local' communications.