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The Hidden History of Big Brother in America

THOM HARTMANN HIDDEN HIST SER: BIG BROTHER IN AMERICA

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<P>America's most popular progressive radio host reveals how the government and corporate America misuse our personal data and shows how we can reclaim our privacy.</P>

The Hidden History of Big Brother in America: How the Death of Privacy and the Rise of Surveillance Threaten Us and Our Democracy

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Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Dedication.
Other Frontmatter.
Contents.
Introduction: The Big Picture of Social Control vs. Democracy.
1: Big Brother and Social Control.
2: Big Brother and the Puritans.
3: Big Brother in the Slave Trade.
4: Big Brother Invents &#x201C;Whiteness&#x201D; to Keep Power.
5: Frederick Douglass: Mental Emancipation Leads to Social Emancipation.
6: Why the Founders Didn&#x2019;t Explicitly Protect Our Privacy.
7: Privacy Evolves in US Law.
8: Surveillance and Social Control in East Germany.
9: US Federal and State Big Brothers.
10: Democracy Requires Trust; Authoritarianism Requires Fear.
11: Big Brother and the Emergence of Surveillance Capitalism.
12: The Surveillance Industry Is Booming.
13: Big Brother Goes Commercial.
14: The Bottom Line? Your Life Is Profitable.
15: Surveillance and Social Control: We Change When We&#x2019;re Watched.
16: Social Control and Social Cooling.
17: Big Data: Surveillance Monopolists.
18: Big Brother and the Real Global Info Wars.
19: Privacy, Cybersecurity, National Security, and the Future of Warfare.
20: How Trump Undermined Our Cybersecurity.
21: When Big Brother&#x2019;s Marketing Is Concentrated to Lethal Levels.
22: When Big Brother Trades Your Privacy for Its Own Power and Security.
23: Are We Living with de Tocqueville&#x2019;s Kinder and Gentler Big Brother?.
24: The Trump Era: A High-Water Mark of Big Brother Lies for Social Control.
25: Beyond Elections: Big Brother in Social Media Can Kill.
26: Putting the Reins on Surveillance Capitalism.
27: Software or Spyware?.
28: Biometrics.
29: The &#x201C;Right to Be Forgotten&#x201D;.
30: YouTube, Facebook, and Porn: Regulate Social Media.
31: How Much Big Brother Will Modern People Tolerate?.
32: The Fourth Amendment Is Not for Sale Act of 2021.
33: Are We Doomed to Live under Big Brother&#x2019;s Watchful Eye?.
Notes.
Acknowledgments.
Index.
About the Author.
Books by Thom Hartmann.
Publisher&#x2019;s Note.

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