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The Rise of the Computer State : The Threat to Our Freedoms, Our Ethics and Our Democratic Process
Overview
The Rise of the Computer State is a comprehensive examination of the ways that computers and massive databases are enabling the nation's corporations and law enforcement agencies to steadily erode our privacy and manipulate and control the American people. This book was written in 1983 as a warning. Today it is a history. Most of its grim scenarios are now part of everyday life. The remedy proposed here, greater public oversight of industry and government, has not occurred, but a better one has not yet been found. While many individuals have willingly surrendered much of their privacy and all of us have lost some of it, the right to keep what remains is still worth protecting.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9781497696976
- ISBN-10: 1497696976
- Publisher: Open Road Distribution
- Publish Date: April 2015
- Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.63 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.78 pounds
- Page Count: 276
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