It’s not just the police who are doing this it’s also private companies. However, the digital era has brought about a new form of dragnet that uses technology to collect vast amounts of personal information on anyone and everyone. Her book is a cautionary tale for all of us, with profound implications for our values, our society, and our very selves. A dragnet is a rare occurrence in which law enforcement officials use extraordinary means to find criminals. Appalled at such a prospect, Angwin conducts a series of experiments to try to protect herself, ranging from quitting Google to carrying a 'burner' phone, showing how difficult it is for an average citizen to resist the dragnets' reach. In a world where we can be watched in our own homes, where we can no longer keep secrets, and where we can be impersonated, financially manipulated, or even placed in a police lineup, Angwin argues that the greatest long-term danger is that we start to internalize the surveillance and censor our words and thoughts, until we lose the very freedom that makes us unique individuals. In Dragnet Nation, award-winning investigative journalist Julia Angwin reports from the front lines of America's surveillance economy, offering a revelatory and unsettling look at how the government, private companies, and even criminals use technology to indiscriminately sweep up vast amounts of our personal data. And the federal government, we recently learned, has been conducting a massive data-gathering surveillance operation across the Internet and on our phone lines. Our smartphones and cars transmit our location, enabling us to know what's in the neighborhood but also enabling others to track us. We see online ads from websites we've visited, long after we've moved on to other interests. Angwin also includes how Edward Snowden released the classified information of how the NSA would go against privacy rights and spy on Americans, not just other foreign countries.As the chapter goes one Julia writes 'If you were to build a taxonomy of trackers it would look something like this.An inside look at who's watching you, what they know and why it matters.

Later there would be new act passed,Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. As the news broke out the government had to keep their surveillance on a low key basis. Angwin shows how the NSA started to track emails and websites that anyone would visit. As the chapter goes on, Angwin references back to what happens in history with what the government and companies have done and are doing in

He felt it was too much invasion of privacy of the people, which Julia Angwin explains how Bill Binney, a former employee, chose to leave the spy agency the government

The chapter focus on how the tragic 9/11 attacks shaped the Internet privacy as a Dragnet Nation, A Short History of Tracking, whichįocus on how Internet privacy became to be today.

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