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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. You are being surveilled right now. This startling expose (The Economist) by a Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist reveals how the U.S. government allied with data brokers, tech companies, and advertisers to monitor us through the phones we carry and the devices in our home.A revealing . . . startling . . . timely . . . fascinating, sometimes terrifying examination of the decline of privacy in the digital age.Kirkus ReviewsSHORTLISTED FOR THE SABEW BEST IN BUSINESS AWARDThat evening, I was given a glimpse inside a hidden world. . . . An entirely new kind of surveillance programone designed to track everyone.For the past five yearsever since a chance encounter at a dinner partyjournalist 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 saleand 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 scopeone that can peer into the lives of nearly everyone on the planet. This cottage industry of data brokers and government bureaucrats has one directiveget everything you canand 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.Sobering and revelatory, Means of Control is the defining story of our dangerous grand bargainubiquitous cheap technology, but at what price? "You are being surveilled right now. This sweeping expose reveals how the U.S. government allied with data brokers, tech companies, and advertisers to monitor us through the phones we carry and the devices in our home."-- Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - You are being surveilled right now. This "startling exposé" (The Economist) by a Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist reveals how the U.S. government allied with data brokers, tech companies, and advertisers to monitor us through the phones we carry and the devices in our home."A revealing . . . startling . . . timely . . . fascinating, sometimes terrifying examination of the decline of privacy in the digital age."Kirkus ReviewsSHORTLISTED FOR THE SABEW BEST IN BUSINESS AWARD"That evening, I was given a glimpse inside a hidden world. . . . An entirely new kind of surveillance programone designed to track everyone."For the past five yearsever since a chance encounter at a dinner partyjournalist 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 saleand 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 scopeone 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.Sobering and revelatory, Means of Control is the defining story of our dangerous grand bargainubiquitous cheap technology, but at what price.…

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. You are being surveilled right now. This startling expose (The Economist) by a Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist reveals how the U.S. government allied with data brokers, tech companies, and advertisers to monitor us through the phones we carry and the devices in our home.A revealing . . . startling . . . timely . . . fascinating, sometimes terrifying examination of the decline of privacy in the digital age.Kirkus ReviewsSHORTLISTED FOR THE SABEW BEST IN BUSINESS AWARDThat evening, I was given a glimpse inside a hidden world. . . . An entirely new kind of surveillance programone designed to track everyone.For the past five yearsever since a chance encounter at a dinner partyjournalist 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 saleand 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 scopeone that can peer into the lives of nearly everyone on the planet. This cottage industry of data brokers and government bureaucrats has one directiveget everything you canand 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.Sobering and revelatory, Means of Control is the defining story of our dangerous grand bargainubiquitous cheap technology, but at what price? "You are being surveilled right now. This sweeping expose reveals how the U.S. government allied with data brokers, tech companies, and advertisers to monitor us through the phones we carry and the devices in our home."-- Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Condition: New. Byron Tau is an investigative and enterprise journalist who specializes in law, courts, and national security. As a reporter for the Associated Press, he won a 2026 Pulitzer Prize in international reporting for an &ldquoastonishing global investigat.

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. You are being surveilled right now. This startling expose (The Economist) by a Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist reveals how the U.S. government allied with data brokers, tech companies, and advertisers to monitor us through the phones we carry and the devices in our home.A revealing . . . startling . . . timely . . . fascinating, sometimes terrifying examination of the decline of privacy in the digital age.Kirkus ReviewsSHORTLISTED FOR THE SABEW BEST IN BUSINESS AWARDThat evening, I was given a glimpse inside a hidden world. . . . An entirely new kind of surveillance programone designed to track everyone.For the past five yearsever since a chance encounter at a dinner partyjournalist 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 saleand 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 scopeone that can peer into the lives of nearly everyone on the planet. This cottage industry of data brokers and government bureaucrats has one directiveget everything you canand 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.Sobering and revelatory, Means of Control is the defining story of our dangerous grand bargainubiquitous cheap technology, but at what price? "You are being surveilled right now. This sweeping expose reveals how the U.S. government allied with data brokers, tech companies, and advertisers to monitor us through the phones we carry and the devices in our home."-- Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

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