Surveillance Valley: The Rise of the Military-Digital Complex
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| Rating | : | 4.98 (907 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01N809DBM |
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| Number of Pages | : | 404 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-04-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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He has also appeared on network television, including MSNBC, and has had his work profiled by the New York Observer, Vanity Fair, and The Verge, among others. He has been published in Wired Magazine, TheNation, Slate, Penthouse, The New York Observer, Playboy, Not Safe For Work Corp, Alternet, an
About the AuthorYasha Levine is an investigative journalist for Pando Daily, a San Francisco-based news magazine focused on covering the politics and power of big tech. He has also appeared on network television, including MSNBC, and has had his work profiled by the New York Observer, Vanity Fair, and The Verge, among others. He has been published in Wired Magazine, TheNation, Slate, Penthouse, The New York Observer, Playboy, Not Safe For Work Corp, Alternet, and many others.
As the book spins forward in time, Levine shows that many of the tech-industry giants we think of as social networks, e-tailers, and search companies are doing double duty as military contractors and security outfits.Levine is unafraid to name names: Google, IBM, Facebook, and many others make appearances in the story; in fact, it's difficult to be a big player in Silicon Valley and avoid--at a minimum--providing data on your users to the government. Yet as Yasha Levine shows in this bracing book, the truth is simpler. Levine traces this history, starting with the visionary sc