The Age of Surveillance; The Aims and Methods of America's Political Intelligence System
by Donner, Frank J
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0394402987
- ISBN 13
- 9780394402987
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. Very good/Good. 25 cm. xvi, 554, [4] pages. Includes footnotes. appendices, notes, bibliography, index. Minor page soiling. Some DJ wear. Frank J. Donner was a civil liberties lawyer who was an expert on the use of government surveillance and informers to discourage political dissent. He was director of the American Civil Liberties Union's Project on Political Surveillance. He worked with the Center for Constitutional Rights, argued cases before the Supreme Court and wrote books on the House Committee on Un-American Activities and Federal and local surveillance and suppression. In 1980, a book by Mr. Donner called "The Age of Surveillance" was published by Knopf. It called for curbs on surveillance abuses by the Federal Government and cited Government attempts to silence political activities and organizations outside the mainstream of American attitudes. Surveillance is the monitoring of the behavior, activities, or other changing information, usually of people for the purpose of influencing, managing, directing, or protecting them. This can include observation from a distance by means of electronic equipment, or interception of electronically transmitted information (such as Internet traffic or phone calls); and it can include simple, relatively no- or low-technology methods such as human intelligence agents and postal interception. Surveillance is used by governments for intelligence gathering, the prevention of crime, the protection of a process, person, group or object, or for the investigation of crime. It is also used by criminal organizations to plan and commit crimes such as robbery and kidnapping, and by businesses to gather intelligence. Surveillance is often a violation of privacy, and is opposed by various civil liberties groups and activists. Many nations have laws which restrict domestic government and private use of surveillance, usually limiting it to circumstances where public safety is at risk.
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- Bookseller
- Ground Zero Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- The Age of Surveillance; The Aims and Methods of America's Political Intelligence System
- Author
- Donner, Frank J
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition [stated], presumed first printing
- ISBN 10
- 0394402987
- ISBN 13
- 9780394402987
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1980
- Keywords
- FBI, Surveillance, IRS, Civil Liberties, Political Surveillance, Intelligence Surveillance, Army Intelligence, Black Militants, CIA, Internal Security, Radicals
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