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On a typical day, you might make a call on a cell phone, withdraw money at an ATM, visit the mall, and make a purchase with a credit card. Each of these routine transactions leaves a digital trail for government agencies and businesses to access. As cutting-edge historian and journalist Christian Parenti points out, these everyday intrusions on privacy, while harmless in themselves, are part of a relentless (and clandestine) expansion of routine surveillance in American life over the last two centuries-from controlling slaves in the old South to implementing early criminal justice and tracking immigrants. Parenti explores the role computers are playing in creating a whole new world of seemingly benign technologies-such as credit cards, website "cookies," and electronic toll collection-that have expanded this trend in the twenty-first century. The Soft Cage offers a compelling, vitally important history lesson for every American concerned about the expansion of surveillance into our public and private lives.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History Regional & national history

• Full title: Soft Cage
• Subtitle: Surveillance in America, From Slavery to the War on Terror
• Author: Christian Parenti
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 286
• EAN: 9780465054855
• ISBN: 0465054854
• ID: 04613394
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Weight: 374 g
• Dimensions: 225 × 152 × 16 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. November 2004

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