Filter By Subjects
Electronic surveillance Electronic surveillance United States Leaks (Disclosure of information) Leaks (Disclosure of information) United States Privacy, Right of United States Snowden, Edward J 1983- United States United States. National Security Agency. United States. National Security Agency/Central Security Service. Whistle blowing United StatesFilter By Subjects
Electronic surveillance Electronic surveillance United States Leaks (Disclosure of information) Leaks (Disclosure of information) United States Privacy, Right of United States Snowden, Edward J 1983- United States United States. National Security Agency. United States. National Security Agency/Central Security Service. Whistle blowing United StatesSnowden, Edward J.
Summary: "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,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 SNOPrice, David H.
Summary: "When the possibility of wiretapping first became known to Americans they were outraged. Now, in our post-9/11 world, it's accepted that corporations are vested with human rights, and government agencies and corporations use computers to monitor our private lives. David H. Price pulls back the curtain to reveal how the FBI and other government agencies have always functioned as the secret...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pluto Press 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323.44 PRIEpstein, Edward Jay
Summary: Challenges the popular image of Edward Snowden as hacker turned avenging angel, while revealing how vulnerable the United States' national security systems have become.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327 EPSSummary: The incredible untold story of Edward Snowden, the polarizing figure who exposed shocking illegal surveillance activities by the NSA and became one of the most wanted men in the world. He is considered a hero by some, and a traitor by others.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SNOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SNO RATED RFerguson, Andrew G.
Summary: The Rise of Big Data Policing introduces the cutting-edge technology that is changing how the police do their jobs and shows why it is more important than ever that citizens understand the far-reaching consequences of big data surveillance as a law enforcement tool. Andrew Guthrie Ferguson reveals how these new technologies --viewed as race-neutral and objective--have been eagerly adopted by...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New York University Press 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363 FERBoghosian, Heidi
Summary: "Dispels widespread myths about mass surveillance, privacy, and autonomy in the digital age"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.1 BOGRall, Ted.
Summary: As many as 1.4 million citizens with security clearance saw some or all of the same documents revealed by Edward Snowden. Why did he, and no one else, decide to step forward and take on the risks associated with becoming a whistleblower and then a fugitive? Rall delves into Snowden's early life and work experience, his personality, and the larger issues of privacy, new surveillance...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Stories Press 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.1273 RALSummary: When Edward Snowden began leaking NSA documents in June 2013, his actions sparked impassioned debates about electronic surveillance, national security, and privacy in the digital age. The Snowden Reader looks at Snowden’s disclosures and their aftermath. Critical analyses by experts discuss the historical, political, legal, and ethical issues raised by the disclosures. Over forty key documents...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Indiana University Press 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327 SNOChatterjee, Pratap
Summary: "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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.127 CHAHowley, Kerry
Summary: "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,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 352.3 HOWSummary: With unprecedented access, this behind-the-scenes chronicle follows director Laura Poitras and journalist Glenn Greenwald's 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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2015
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CIT RATED RCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CITGreenwald, Glenn
Summary: "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,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342 GREEdgar, Timothy H.
Summary: America's mass surveillance programs, once secret, can no longer be ignored. 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 real question is: What should we do about mass surveillance?...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Brookings Institution Press 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342 EDGGellman, Barton
Summary: "Edward Snowden chose three journalists to tell the stories in his Top Secret trove of NSA documents: Barton Gellman of The Washington Post, Glenn Greenwald of The Guardian and filmmaker Laura Poitras, all of whom would share the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. Poitras went on to direct the Oscar-winning Citizenfour. Greenwald wrote an instant memoir and cast himself as a pugilist on...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.1273 GELSummary: Americans have long debated how to balance protecting individual liberties while assuring public safety. This debate intensified after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, which prompted passage of the USA Patriot Act and other laws. These measures were designed to protect Americans from terrorism, but they also allowed increased government scrutiny of individual activities. Is it...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
View online at AVOD
Daugherty, Michael J
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323.49 DAUAttkisson, Sharyl
Summary: A CBS reporter reveals how she has been electronically surveilled while digging deep into the Obama Administration and its scandals, and offers an incisive critique of her industry and the shrinking role of investigative journalism in today's media.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320 ATTFriedman, Barry
Summary: "As the debate about out-of-control policing heats up, an authority on constitutional law offers a provocative account of how our rights have been eroded In June 2013, documents leaked by Edward Snowden sparked widespread debate about secret government surveillance of Americans. Just over a year later, the shooting of Michael Brown, a black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri, set off protests and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 344 FRISummary: This edition of Frontline examines the consequences of the Bush administration's domestic war on terrorism. Reporter Hedrick Smith details how the National Security Agency's domestic surveillance program works and considers whether or not it jeopardizes Americans' civil liberties. The program looks at clashing viewpoints on whether Bush violated the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
View online at AVOD
Rosenzweig, Paul
Summary: A course of 24 lectures by Professor Paul Rosenzweig.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016