Spying on US citizens is rising as corporations make big bucks selling info about our private lives to the government.

CONTENTS

Introduction:
Personal data is the post-9/11 commodity

1 Trafficking Imagination in the Streets

2 A Nation Spies on Its Own

3 The Business of Spying

4 Privatizing the Police

5 Listening in on Lawyers

6 Spychips

7 Censoring Cyberspace

8 Tools to Chill Free Speech

9 The Cost of Suppressing Dissent

10 The Surveillance Camera Players

About the Author

Index

Heidi Boghosian is the Executive Director of the National Lawyers Guild and oversees the legal defense of protesters and individuals targeted by the government. She co-hosts the program "Law and Disorder" based out of Pacifica radio network’s WBAI, New York, and is broadcast to more than 25 states on over 42 stations. Selected writings by Boghosian include Punishing Protest (National Lawyers Guild 2007), Applying Restraints to Private Police (Missouri Law Review 2005) and The Assault on Free Speech, Public Assembly, and Dissent (North River Press 2004). Her books reviews have appeared in The Federal Lawyer and the New York Law Journal.