1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910798196803321

Titolo

Surveillance in America : an encyclopedia of history, politics, and the law / / Pam Dixon, consulting editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Santa Barbara, California : , : ABC-CLIO, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, , [2016]

�2016

ISBN

979-82-16-15194-4

1-4408-4055-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (2 volumes (xxxiii, 744 pages)) : illustrations, portraits

Collana

Gale eBooks

Classificazione

HIS027110HIS027060ART040000

Disciplina

342.7308/58

Soggetti

Electronic surveillance - Law and legislation - United States

Privacy, Right of - United States - History

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Volume 1. A-Z Entries -- Volume 2. Primary documents.

Sommario/riassunto

"Government surveillance as an issue exploded into modern consciousness with the revelations that Edward Snowden made about the activities of the National Security Agency in 2013. But government surveillance is actually an old issue with a long and tangled history reaching back through generations. The competing interests involved in government surveillance create deeply opposing tensions that never seem to get fully resolved or go away. Government wants to surveil in secrecy to protect home and country, and those being governed for their part want to be safe and protected. But individuals also want to have autonomy, privacy, and freedom from unfair intrusions or other abuses of government power. The nuanced and long-term interaction of this push and pull between the government's legitimate desire for surveillance and legitimate desire expressed by individuals and society as a whole for civil liberties and autonomy run deeply though America's history, laws, actions, and policies of government surveillance"--