The Rise of the American Corporate Security State - Six Reasons to Be Afraid (Electronic book text)

Take Back Our Civil Liberties Beatrice Edwards, executive director of the organization representing Edward Snowden and four other NSA whistleblowers, argues that we now live in a Corporate Security State, where the government is more interested in protecting the companies that serve it than the citizens who support it. Hheavy domestic surveillance, political persecution of dissenters, the threat of indefinite detention codified into lawOCohow did we get here? And is there a way out?Edwards details how intelligence agencies took advantage of 9/11 to illegitimately extend the governmentOCOs reach. Corporations, she shows, were only too eager to sell them expensive surveillance technology, as well as share data on customers and employees using the bogus threat of an imminent OC cyber war.OCO This is why the Justice Department isnOCOt going after the institutions responsible for the financial collapse of 2008OCogovernment and business are partners in crime. But Edwards offers a plan to fight back and restore transparency to government, keep private information private, and make democracy a reality once again."