02843cam a2200337 i 4500 1140565750 TxAuBib 20240312120000.0 231102s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2023048680 9780593443224 HRD 32.00 0593443225 HRD 32.00 TxAuBib rda Tau, Byron, author Means of control. Means of control [BOOK] : how the hidden alliance of tech and government is creating a new American surveillance state / Byron Tau. How the hidden alliance of tech and government is creating a new American surveillance state. First edition. New York : Crown, [2024] xxvii, 368 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. "For the past five years—ever since a chance encounter at a dinner party—journalist Byron Tau has been piecing together a secret story: how the whole of the internet and every digital device in the world became a mechanism of intelligence, surveillance, and monitoring. Of course, our modern world is awash in surveillance. Most of us are dimly aware of this: Ever get the sense that an ad is “following” you around the internet? But the true potential of our phones, computers, homes, credit cards, and even the tires underneath our cars to reveal our habits and behavior would astonish most citizens. All of this surveillance has produced an extraordinary amount of valuable data about every one of us. That data is for sale—and the biggest customer is the U.S. government. In the years after 9/11, the U.S. government, working with scores of anonymous companies, many scattered across bland Northern Virginia suburbs, built a foreign and domestic surveillance apparatus of breathtaking scope—one that can peer into the lives of nearly everyone on the planet. This cottage industry of data brokers and government bureaucrats has one directive—“get everything you can”—and the result is a surreal world in which defense contractors have marketing subsidiaries and marketing companies have defense contractor subsidiaries. And the public knows virtually nothing about it. Means of Control is the defining story of our dangerous grand bargain—ubiquitous cheap technology, but at what price?". 20240312. Electronic surveillance United States. Electronic surveillance Government policy United States. Security systems United States. Undercover operations United States. Social control United States.