Technology of Oppression Preserving Freedom and Dignity in an Age of Mass, Warrantless Surveillance

In the wake of the National Security Agency exposé of 2013, scholars and citizens alike have been turning a critical eye toward United States surveillance policies. Technology of Oppression contributes to this ongoing discussion with a systematic analysis of mass surveillance in America and allied countries, detailing how lax intelligence laws have allowed these technologies to undermine common civil liberties. Toward the practical end of reigning in existing surveillance technologies, Cohen offers a concise proposal listing the policy changes and software developments necessary to establish an internet-based, global forum for transparently affecting legal and technological change.

Elliot D. Cohen, Ph.D. specializes in information technology and mass media ethics. His many published works include Mass Surveillance and State Control: The Total Information Awareness Project (2010). Author of several technology patents related to the protection of electronic privacy, he has written extensively on foreign intelligence surveillance law.

Introduction: Why Privacy Matters
1. A History of the Mass Warrantless Surveillance Network
2. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Law
3. Network Searches and Applications
4. Transparency of Policies and Practices
5. Democracy in Cyberspace
6. Next Generation Technologies
7. The Technological Imperative
8. Network Surveillance Regulations