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Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Listen. All the world forgets me. First my face, then my voice, then the consequences of my deeds. So listen. Remember me. My name is Hope Ardern, and you won't know who I am. We've met before - a thousand times. But I am the girl the world forgets. It started when I was sixteen years old. A slow declining, an isolation, one piece at a time. A father forgetting to drive me to school. A mother setting the table for three, not four. A teacher who forgets...
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
[Open Access edition].
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xiii, 254 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)
Language
English
Description
With Mexico's War on Crime as the backdrop,Making Things Stickoffers an innovative analysis of how surveillance technologies impact governance in the global society. More than just tools to monitor ordinary people, surveillance technologies are imagined by government officials as a way to reform the national state by focusing on the material things - cellular phones, automobiles, human bodies - that can enable crime. In describing the challenges that...
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English
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"Most days, Masha Maximow was sure she'd chosen the winning side. In her day job as a counterterrorism wizard for an transnational cybersecurity firm, she made the hacks that allowed repressive regimes to spy on dissidents, and manipulate their every move. The perks were fantastic, and the pay was obscene. Just for fun, and to piss off her masters, Masha sometimes used her mad skills to help those same troublemakers evade detection, if their cause...
6) Snowden
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Language
English
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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 technologies, and the recent history of government intrusion. Rall...
7) Cyberia
Author
Series
Cyberia volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
In a future where electronic surveillance has taken the place of love, a veterinarian is putting computer chips in animals to control them, and those creatures choose young Zane, who understands their speech, to release captives and bring them to a technology-free safety zone.
8) Surveillance
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
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Surveillance is the close observation of a person or a group of people. Governments and organizations surveil people. Surveillance may help find and protect people from threats. But it can also be used to target people. Surveillance explores issues related to surveillance and people's right to privacy.
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English
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"Josh Chin and Liza Lin's Surveillance State is a groundbreaking work of investigative nonfiction on life in China's burgeoning surveillance state People living in democracies have for decades drawn comfort from the notion that their form of government, for all its flaws, is the best history has managed to produce. Surveillance State documents with startling detail how even as China's Communist Party pays lip service to democracy as a core value of...
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English
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"This book deals with two very large and often amorphous concepts: privacy and surveillance in the context of both government and the marketplace. Both concepts have undergone changes over the millennia of recorded human history, and those changes have dramatically sped up and expanded over the past few centuries, starting with the widespread use of the printing press in the mid- to late-15th century when books and newspapers began to proliferate...
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English
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"Long-haul truckers are the backbone of the American economy, transporting goods under grueling conditions and immense economic pressure. Truckers have long valued the day-to-day independence of their work, sharing a strong occupational identity rooted in a tradition of autonomy. Yet these workers increasingly find themselves under many watchful eyes. Data Driven examines how digital surveillance is upending life and work on the open road, and raises...
13) The Red Menace
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
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Description
"During the summer of 1953, thirteen-year-old Marty's parents are suspected of communist sympathies, upending his life and causing him to question what it really means to be a patriotic American"--
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
For General Michael Hayden, playing to the edge means playing so close to the line that you get chalk dust on your cleats. Otherwise, by playing back, you may protect yourself, but you will be less successful in protecting America. "Play to the edge" was Hayden's guiding principle when he ran the National Security Agency, and it remained so when he ran CIA. How did American intelligence respond to terrorism, a major war and the most sweeping technological...
15) The circle
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Language
English
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Description
When Mae is hired to work for, The Circle, the world's largest and most powerful tech and social media company, she sees it as an opportunity. As she rises through the ranks, she is encouraged by the company's founder, Eamon Bailey, to engage in a groundbreaking experiment that pushes the boundaries of privacy, ethics and ultimately her personal freedom. Her participation in the experiment, and every decision she makes begin to affect the lives and...
16) Look
Publisher
Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
There are an estimated 30 million surveillance cameras in the United States. On any given day, the average American is captured approximately 200 times. Every one of us is constantly being observed at our jobs, on the street, while shopping, and sometimes even in our own homes. All of our secrets, lies, crimes, and most private moments are being recorded.
17) Snowden
Publisher
Open Road
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (ca. 134 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
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.
"...a riveting procedural docudrama that takes a deep dive into what surveillance has become."--Variety
"It's sexy, controversial, visually interesting..."--New York Daily News
"...numerous accomplished scenes..."--RogerEbert.com...
18) They're watching
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Language
English
Appears on list
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Patrick Davis is a man with troubles. First his Hollywood dreams crumble and then his storybook marriage hits a snag. Now, DVDs start being delivered to his house, DVDs which show that someone is watching him and his wife, that the two of them are being stalked and recorded by cameras hidden in their house. Then someone offers to fix everything, to take the mess his life has become and make it all right. Patrick figures it's the offer of a lifetime....
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2005], c2003-2004
Edition
Uncut & uncensorsed edition ; widescreen.
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (ca. 16.5 hrs.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Follows the elite Las Vegas surveillance team charged with maintaining the security of one of the city's largest resorts and casinos. Big Ed Deline is the newly appointed President of Operations and the head of the surveillance team for the Montecito Resort & Casino. His righthand man is Danny McCoy. They deal with card-counting cheaters, costly streaks of random luck and rival casinos stealing their big-money players.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
Anamorphic widescreen format (2.35:1).
Physical Desc
1 DVD (137 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
A 1984 East Berlin simple surveillance assignment: Capt. Gerd Wiesler, a Stasi officer and a specialist in surveillance, has been assigned to keep an eye on Georg Dreyman, a respected playwright, and his actress girlfriend, Christa-Maria Sieland. Though Dreyman is known to associate with blacklisted director Albert Jerska, a known dissident, Dreyman's record is spotless. Wiesler discovers that Minister Hempf has an ulterior motive in spying on this...
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