Illusions of security : global surveillance and democracy in the post-9/11 world
"The government is spying on us, accessing our email, our bank records, and our cell phone calls. Maureen Webb exposes the shadowy global network of surveillance that is Infringing on the personal privacy and civil liberties of people in the United States and worldwide. Biometrics, chip Implants, abductions, and torture are no longer sci-fi, they are in practice today and paid for with our taxes. Maureen Webb shows us the scope of the problem and how to resist."--Jacket.
Prologue: Monia's children
The cautionary tale of Maher Arar
The tip of an iceberg: the President's secret spying
The new mantra: pre-emption of risk
The new mantra and the agenda for mass, globalized registration and surveillance
Biometric registration of alien populations
Mass detentions of Muslim immigrants and registration through NSEERS US VISIT and the E.U. Visa Information System
Biometric visas
Linkage of biometric information to a global web of databases
U.S. acquisition of domestic and foreign databases
The template for the global system of mass registration and surveillance
Biometric registration of citizens and the creation of a global identification system
Biometric passports
Policy laundering
referral to ICAO
The model: carte blanche
RFID chips
Biometric passports and the democratic deficit
Flawed technology and assumptions
Expansion to other transportation systems
Institutionalizing "
non-personhood"
The creation of an infrastructure for the global surveillance of movement
U.S. demands for sharing passenger name records
The deals made
PNR and the democratic deficit
another referral to ICAO
Expansion to other transportation systems
The creation of an infrastructure for the surveillance of electronic communications and financial transactions globally and domestically
"
Building in surveillance"
and the convention on cybercrime
Mandatory data retention
Expansion of Echelon
Mandatory information-gathering and reporting for financial transactions
Deep integration and the loss of sovereign checks and balances
The corporate security complex
The expropriation of the democratic commons
A loss of moral compass
rendition, torture, death
The global gulag
Detention centers used by the U.S
The practice of rendition
Disappearance
The assertion of a legal black hole and authority to torture
Torture committed by U.S. personnel
The plan to build permanent prisons outside the U.S
The participation of other Western democracies
New license for brutal regimes
Illusions of security
Resisting the registration and surveillance agenda
Pockets of resistance
NGOs
Democratic institutions
Courts
The future is in our hands.
The cautionary tale of Maher Arar
The tip of an iceberg: the President's secret spying
The new mantra: pre-emption of risk
The new mantra and the agenda for mass, globalized registration and surveillance
Biometric registration of alien populations
Mass detentions of Muslim immigrants and registration through NSEERS US VISIT and the E.U. Visa Information System
Biometric visas
Linkage of biometric information to a global web of databases
U.S. acquisition of domestic and foreign databases
The template for the global system of mass registration and surveillance
Biometric registration of citizens and the creation of a global identification system
Biometric passports
Policy laundering
referral to ICAO
The model: carte blanche
RFID chips
Biometric passports and the democratic deficit
Flawed technology and assumptions
Expansion to other transportation systems
Institutionalizing "
non-personhood"
The creation of an infrastructure for the global surveillance of movement
U.S. demands for sharing passenger name records
The deals made
PNR and the democratic deficit
another referral to ICAO
Expansion to other transportation systems
The creation of an infrastructure for the surveillance of electronic communications and financial transactions globally and domestically
"
Building in surveillance"
and the convention on cybercrime
Mandatory data retention
Expansion of Echelon
Mandatory information-gathering and reporting for financial transactions
Deep integration and the loss of sovereign checks and balances
The corporate security complex
The expropriation of the democratic commons
A loss of moral compass
rendition, torture, death
The global gulag
Detention centers used by the U.S
The practice of rendition
Disappearance
The assertion of a legal black hole and authority to torture
Torture committed by U.S. personnel
The plan to build permanent prisons outside the U.S
The participation of other Western democracies
New license for brutal regimes
Illusions of security
Resisting the registration and surveillance agenda
Pockets of resistance
NGOs
Democratic institutions
Courts
The future is in our hands.
Item details
- ISBN: 0872864766
- ISBN: 9780872864764
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Physical Description:
xiii, 305 pages ; 21 cm
print - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: San Francisco : City Lights Books, [2007]
- Copyright: ©2007
Contents / Notes
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-284) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Prologue: Monia's children The cautionary tale of Maher Arar The tip of an iceberg: the President's secret spying The new mantra: pre-emption of risk The new mantra and the agenda for mass, globalized registration and surveillance Biometric registration of alien populations Mass detentions of Muslim immigrants and registration through NSEERS US VISIT and the E.U. Visa Information System Biometric visas Linkage of biometric information to a global web of databases U.S. acquisition of domestic and foreign databases The template for the global system of mass registration and surveillance Biometric registration of citizens and the creation of a global identification system Biometric passports Policy laundering; referral to ICAO The model: carte blanche RFID chips Biometric passports and the democratic deficit Flawed technology and assumptions Expansion to other transportation systems Institutionalizing "non-personhood" The creation of an infrastructure for the global surveillance of movement U.S. demands for sharing passenger name records The deals made PNR and the democratic deficit; another referral to ICAO Expansion to other transportation systems The creation of an infrastructure for the surveillance of electronic communications and financial transactions globally and domestically "Building in surveillance" and the convention on cybercrime Mandatory data retention Expansion of Echelon Mandatory information-gathering and reporting for financial transactions Deep integration and the loss of sovereign checks and balances The corporate security complex The expropriation of the democratic commons A loss of moral compass; rendition, torture, death The global gulag Detention centers used by the U.S The practice of rendition Disappearance The assertion of a legal black hole and authority to torture Torture committed by U.S. personnel The plan to build permanent prisons outside the U.S The participation of other Western democracies New license for brutal regimes Illusions of security Resisting the registration and surveillance agenda Pockets of resistance NGOs Democratic institutions Courts The future is in our hands. |
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