In this entertaining and highly revealing account of his attempt to dodge Britain’s 4.2 million CCTV cameras and other forms of surveillance, Ross Clark lays bare the astonishing amount of personal data which is hoarded by the state and by commercial organizations, and asks whom should we fear most: the government agencies who are spying on us – or the criminals who seem to prosper in the swirling fog of excessive data-collection.
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The Road to Big Big Brother
One Man’s Struggle against the Surveillance Society
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Publication Details
Hardcover / 200 pages
ISBN: 1594032483
AVAILABLE:6/15/2009
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The Road to Big Big Brother
One Man’s Struggle against the Surveillance Society
About the Author
Ross Clark is a journalist who has written extensively for the Times of London, the Sunday Telegraph, the Mail on Sunday, and The Spectator. He is the author of How to Label a Goat: The Silly Rules and Regulations That Are Strangling Britain and The Great Before, a satire on the anti-globalization movement.
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