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Bestsellers
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Permanent Record
- By: Edward Snowden
- Narrated by: Holter Graham
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Edward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government’s system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first time the story of his life, including how he helped to build that system and what motivated him to try to bring it down....
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Great (if incomplete) account
- By Ryan L on 09-22-19
By: Edward Snowden
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First Platoon
- A Story of Modern War in the Age of Identity Dominance
- By: Annie Jacobsen
- Narrated by: Annie Jacobsen
- Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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A powerful story of war in our time, of love of country, the experience of tragedy, and a platoon at the center of it all....
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An eye opener
- By Amazon Customer on 01-19-21
By: Annie Jacobsen
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Means of Control
- How the Hidden Alliance of Tech and Government Is Creating a New American Surveillance State
- By: Byron Tau
- Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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For the past five years—ever since a chance encounter at a dinner party—journalist Byron Tau has been piecing together a secret story: how the whole of the internet and every digital device in the world became a mechanism of intelligence, surveillance, and monitoring....
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Up to date in an information tsunami world
- By Mark A Vega on 04-23-24
By: Byron Tau
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
- The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
- By: Shoshana Zuboff
- Narrated by: Nicol Zanzarella
- Length: 24 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism is neither a hand-wringing narrative of danger and decline nor a digital fairy tale. It offers a reasoned and evocative examination of the contests over the next chapter of capitalism that will decide the meaning of information civilization....
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Book Editors failed to trim the word count
- By Todd B on 07-14-19
By: Shoshana Zuboff
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Artificial Intelligence Versus God
- The Final Battle for Humanity
- By: Perry Stone
- Narrated by: Matthew Foley
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Known as artificial intelligence, experts warn that the technology comes with great benefits, but also with great warnings....
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AI vs. God
- By Pauline on 05-03-24
By: Perry Stone
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Pegasus
- How a Spy in Your Pocket Threatens the End of Privacy, Dignity, and Democracy
- By: Laurent Richard, Sandrine Rigaud, Rachel Maddow
- Narrated by: Andrew Wehrlen, Rachel Maddow, Rachel Perry
- Length: 12 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Pegasus tells the story of one of the most sophisticated, invasive government surveillance weapons ever created.
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Incredible!
- By Silvershopper on 01-18-23
By: Laurent Richard, and others
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Permanent Record
- By: Edward Snowden
- Narrated by: Holter Graham
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Edward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government’s system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first time the story of his life, including how he helped to build that system and what motivated him to try to bring it down....
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Great (if incomplete) account
- By Ryan L on 09-22-19
By: Edward Snowden
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First Platoon
- A Story of Modern War in the Age of Identity Dominance
- By: Annie Jacobsen
- Narrated by: Annie Jacobsen
- Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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A powerful story of war in our time, of love of country, the experience of tragedy, and a platoon at the center of it all....
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An eye opener
- By Amazon Customer on 01-19-21
By: Annie Jacobsen
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Means of Control
- How the Hidden Alliance of Tech and Government Is Creating a New American Surveillance State
- By: Byron Tau
- Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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For the past five years—ever since a chance encounter at a dinner party—journalist Byron Tau has been piecing together a secret story: how the whole of the internet and every digital device in the world became a mechanism of intelligence, surveillance, and monitoring....
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Up to date in an information tsunami world
- By Mark A Vega on 04-23-24
By: Byron Tau
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
- The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
- By: Shoshana Zuboff
- Narrated by: Nicol Zanzarella
- Length: 24 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism is neither a hand-wringing narrative of danger and decline nor a digital fairy tale. It offers a reasoned and evocative examination of the contests over the next chapter of capitalism that will decide the meaning of information civilization....
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Book Editors failed to trim the word count
- By Todd B on 07-14-19
By: Shoshana Zuboff
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Artificial Intelligence Versus God
- The Final Battle for Humanity
- By: Perry Stone
- Narrated by: Matthew Foley
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Known as artificial intelligence, experts warn that the technology comes with great benefits, but also with great warnings....
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AI vs. God
- By Pauline on 05-03-24
By: Perry Stone
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Pegasus
- How a Spy in Your Pocket Threatens the End of Privacy, Dignity, and Democracy
- By: Laurent Richard, Sandrine Rigaud, Rachel Maddow
- Narrated by: Andrew Wehrlen, Rachel Maddow, Rachel Perry
- Length: 12 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Pegasus tells the story of one of the most sophisticated, invasive government surveillance weapons ever created.
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Incredible!
- By Silvershopper on 01-18-23
By: Laurent Richard, and others
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Spyfail
- Foreign Spies, Moles, Saboteurs, and the Collapse of America's Counterintelligence
- By: James Bamford
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 20 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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James Bamford unveils a hidden cabal of foreign powers that have spied against America to reveal the incredible spygames, secrets, and cyberweapons they’ve hatched, unlocked, and stolen—and how U.S. intelligence has utterly failed to stop them....
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As an undereducated layman, Bamford is excellent
- By ChuckBeattyxHOEYologist75to03 on 03-11-23
By: James Bamford
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Weapons of Math Destruction
- How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
- By: Cathy O'Neil
- Narrated by: Cathy O'Neil
- Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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We live in the age of the algorithm. Increasingly, the decisions that affect our lives—where we go to school, whether we can get a job or a loan, how much we pay for health insurance—are being made not by humans, but by machines. In theory, this should lead to greater fairness....
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More are US social problems that WMD
- By Laurent Bourgault-Roy on 01-08-17
By: Cathy O'Neil
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No Place to Hide
- Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State
- By: Glenn Greenwald
- Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Coming at a landmark moment in American history, No Place to Hide is a fearless, incisive, and essential contribution to our understanding of the U.S. surveillance state....
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Best Read in Print Format
- By Alfredo Ramirez on 11-22-14
By: Glenn Greenwald
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Your Face Belongs to Us
- A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It
- By: Kashmir Hill
- Narrated by: Kashmir Hill
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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New York Times tech reporter Kashmir Hill was skeptical when she got a tip about a mysterious app called Clearview AI that claimed it could, with 99 percent accuracy, identify anyone based on just one snapshot of their face....
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Scary subject, but inevitable
- By Tim Williams on 05-02-24
By: Kashmir Hill
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Our Biggest Fight
- Reclaiming Liberty, Humanity, and Dignity in the Digital Age
- By: Frank H. McCourt Jr., Michael J. Casey - contributor
- Narrated by: Frank H. McCourt Jr., Michael J. Casey, Jonathan Beville
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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The internet as we know it is broken. Here’s how we can seize back control of our lives from the corporate algorithms and create a better internet—before it’s too late....
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We can make Ai work for us by starting to claim our own data!
- By Amazon Customer on 04-20-24
By: Frank H. McCourt Jr., and others
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The Recruiter
- Spying and the Lost Art of American Intelligence
- By: Douglas London
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 17 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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This revealing memoir from a 34-year veteran of the CIA who worked as a case officer and recruiter of foreign agents before and after 9/11 provides an invaluable perspective on the state of modern spy craft, how the CIA has developed, and how it must continue to evolve....
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What a whiner
- By Apple Engineer on 02-26-22
By: Douglas London
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Sedition Hunters
- How January 6th Broke the Justice System
- By: Ryan J. Reilly
- Narrated by: Ryan J. Reilly
- Length: 12 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Ryan Reilly gets to know would-be revolutionaries, obsessive online sleuths, and FBI agents, and shines a light on a justice system that's straining to maintain order in our polarized country....
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Lost Opportunity
- By JenMarie66 on 10-21-23
By: Ryan J. Reilly
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Outrage Machine
- How Tech Amplifies Discontent, Disrupts Democracy—and What We Can Do About It
- By: Tobias Rose-Stockwell
- Narrated by: Justin Price, Tobias Rose-Stockwell, Bolton Marsh
- Length: 12 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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An invaluable guide to understanding the underlying machinery and technology that grabs our attention—and keeps us coming back by filling us with rage....
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EXCEPTIONAL
- By David S. on 07-16-23
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Click Here to Kill Everybody
- Security and Survival in a Hyper-connected World
- By: Bruce Schneier
- Narrated by: Roger Wayne
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Everything is a computer. Cutting-edge digital attackers can now crash your car, your pacemaker, and the nation’s power grid. In Click Here to Kill Everybody, renowned expert and best-selling author Bruce Schneier examines the hidden risks of this new reality....
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Title is the best part of the book
- By Ener Systems on 06-16-19
By: Bruce Schneier
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The Power of One
- How I Found the Strength to Tell the Truth and Why I Blew the Whistle on Facebook
- By: Frances Haugen
- Narrated by: Frances Haugen
- Length: 16 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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The Power of One is the inside story of one woman’s battles against Big Tech, by the Facebook whistleblower who is determined to help us all retake control of our lives....
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Thank God for the analytical mind of Frances.
- By Sarah on 09-22-23
By: Frances Haugen
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To Build a Better World
- Choices to End the Cold War and Create a Global Commonwealth
- By: Philip Zelikow, Condoleezza Rice
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 17 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Two of America's leading scholar-diplomats, Philip Zelikow and Condoleezza Rice, have combed sources in several languages, interviewed leading figures, and drawn on their own firsthand experience to bring to life the choices that molded the contemporary world....
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Valuable historical narrative
- By Jane G. Malkin on 04-07-22
By: Philip Zelikow, and others
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Bleeding Out
- The Devastating Consequences of Urban Violence - and a Bold New Plan for Peace in the Streets
- By: Thomas Abt
- Narrated by: Brad Raymond
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Urban violence is one of the most divisive and allegedly intractable issues of our time. But as Harvard scholar Thomas Abt shows in Bleeding Out, we actually possess all the tools necessary to stem violence in our cities....
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Great read from a guy who committed his life to reducing violence
- By Dan Goodwin on 08-09-20
By: Thomas Abt
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Seek and Hide
- The Tangled History of the Right to Privacy
- By: Amy Gajda
- Narrated by: Amy Gajda
- Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Should everyone have privacy in their personal lives? Can privacy exist in a public place? Is there a right to be left alone even in the United States? You may be startled to realize that the original framers were sensitive to the importance of privacy interests....
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Meticulous & thoughtful
- By Adrian W. Rich on 02-21-23
By: Amy Gajda
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The Hank Show
- How a House-Painting, Drug-Running DEA Informant Built the Machine That Rules Our Lives
- By: McKenzie Funk
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin, McKenzie Funk
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Critically acclaimed author and journalist McKenzie Funk tells the bizarre and captivating story of the most important person you've never heard of....
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fascinating
- By Joseph Moore on 02-12-24
By: McKenzie Funk
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Taking Privacy Seriously
- How to Create the Rights We Need While We Still Have Something to Protect
- By: James B. Rule
- Narrated by: Gregory Abbey
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Taking Privacy Seriously offers both a hard-hitting assessment of the origins of today’s privacy-eroding practices and a robust road map for creating individual authority over our personal data.
By: James B. Rule
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Policing the Womb
- Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood
- By: Michele Goodwin
- Narrated by: Robin Eller
- Length: 13 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Policing the Womb brings to life the chilling ways in which women have become the targets of secretive state surveillance of their pregnancies....
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AI Narrator
- By B.Sanabia on 11-16-23
By: Michele Goodwin
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Surveillance Valley
- The Secret Military History of the Internet
- By: Yasha Levine
- Narrated by: LJ Ganser
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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In this fascinating book, investigative reporter Yasha Levine uncovers the secret origins of the Internet, tracing it back to a Pentagon counterinsurgency surveillance project....
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Profound look at the internet and surveillance
- By stuartjash on 04-06-18
By: Yasha Levine
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Armas de Destruccion Matematica (Narración en Castellano) [Weapons of Math Destruction]
- Como el Big Data Aumenta la Desigualdad [How Big Data Increases Inequality]
- By: Cathy O'Neil
- Narrated by: Elena Ruiz de Velasco
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Vivimos en la edad del algoritmo. Cada vez más, las decisiones que afectan nuestras vidas no están hechas por humanos, sino por modelos matemáticos. Los modelos que se utilizan en la actualidad son opacos, no regulados e incontestables, incluso cuando están equivocados....
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Información muy relevante
- By Mauricio Villa on 11-03-23
By: Cathy O'Neil
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The Perfect Police State
- An Undercover Odyssey into China's Terrifying Surveillance Dystopia of the Future
- By: Geoffrey Cain
- Narrated by: Feodor Chin
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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A riveting investigation into how a restive region of China became the site of a nightmare Orwellian social experiment - the definitive police state - and the global technology giants that made it possible....
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Enjoyed the story and performance
- By Nate on 07-08-21
By: Geoffrey Cain
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Targeted
- The Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower's Inside Story of How Big Data, Trump, and Facebook Broke Democracy and How It Can Happen Again
- By: Brittany Kaiser
- Narrated by: Brittany Kaiser
- Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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In this explosive memoir, a political consultant and technology whistleblower reveals the disturbing truth about the multi-billion-dollar data industry, revealing to the public how companies are getting richer using our personal information....
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Heavy on Kaiser, Light on Cambridge Analytica’s Data Operations
- By Morgan H Hoban on 11-05-19
By: Brittany Kaiser
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The Voyeur's Motel
- By: Gay Talese
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 5 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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On January 7, 1980, in the run-up to the publication of his landmark best seller Thy Neighbor's Wife, Gay Talese received an anonymous letter from a man in Colorado....
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Strangely captivating
- By Mike Lewis on 07-14-16
By: Gay Talese
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Surveillance State
- Inside China's Quest to Launch a New Era of Social Control
- By: Josh Chin, Liza Lin
- Narrated by: Brian Nishii
- Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Surveillance State tells the gripping, startling, and detailed story of how China’s Communist Party is building a new kind of political control: shaping the will of the people through the sophisticated—and often brutal—harnessing of data....
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Excellent
- By DeeRod on 05-26-23
By: Josh Chin, and others
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Under Surveillance: Being Watched in Modern America
- By: Randolph Lewis
- Narrated by: Gary Roelofs
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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In Under Surveillance, Randolph Lewis offers a highly original look at the emotional, ethical, and aesthetic challenges of living with surveillance in America since 9/11. Lewis explores the growth of surveillance in surprising places, such as childhood and nature....
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A timely read
- By Mel Woods on 04-29-21
By: Randolph Lewis
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Invisible Rulers
- The People Who Turn Lies into Reality
- By: Renee DiResta
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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A brilliant, original analysis of the radical shift in the dynamics of power and influence, revealing how the machinery that powered the Big Lie works to create bespoke realities revolutionizing politics, culture, and society....
By: Renee DiResta
New releases
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Taking Privacy Seriously
- How to Create the Rights We Need While We Still Have Something to Protect
- By: James B. Rule
- Narrated by: Gregory Abbey
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Taking Privacy Seriously offers both a hard-hitting assessment of the origins of today’s privacy-eroding practices and a robust road map for creating individual authority over our personal data. James B. Rule proposes eleven key reforms in the control and use of personal information—including far-reaching new rights for individuals and meaningful responsibilities for data-keeping organizations—all aimed at redressing the balance of power between ordinary citizens and data hungry corporate and government institutions.
By: James B. Rule
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Code Dependent
- Living in the Shadow of AI
- By: Madhumita Murgia
- Narrated by: Madhumita Murgia
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Through the voices of ordinary people in places far removed from Silicon Valley, Code Dependent explores the impact of a set of powerful, flawed, and often exploitative technologies on individuals, communities, and our wider society. Madhumita Murgia, AI Editor at the FT, exposes how AI can strip away our collective and individual sense of agency – and shatter our illusion of free will.
By: Madhumita Murgia
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Our Biggest Fight
- Reclaiming Liberty, Humanity, and Dignity in the Digital Age
- By: Frank H. McCourt Jr., Michael J. Casey - contributor
- Narrated by: Frank H. McCourt Jr., Michael J. Casey, Jonathan Beville
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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It was once a utopian dream. But today’s internet, despite its conveniences and connectivity, is the primary cause of a pervasive unease that has taken hold in the U.S. and other democratic societies. The roots of this crisis, argue Frank McCourt and Michael Casey, lie in the prevailing order of the internet. In plain but forceful language, the authors—a civic entrepreneur and an acclaimed journalist—show how a centralized system controlled by a small group of for-profit entities has set this catastrophe in motion and eroded our personhood.
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We can make Ai work for us by starting to claim our own data!
- By Amazon Customer on 04-20-24
By: Frank H. McCourt Jr., and others
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A Comprehensive Framework for Adapting National Intelligence for Domestic Law Enforcement
- By: Josh Luberisse
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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"A Comprehensive Framework for Adapting National Intelligence for Domestic Law Enforcement" is a groundbreaking book that delves into the intricate process of integrating sophisticated national intelligence methodologies into domestic law enforcement practices. Authored by a seasoned expert in the field of private intelligence, this book emerges as a critical resource for military leaders, policymakers, members of the intelligence community, and law enforcement personnel. This insightful work begins by exploring the historical evolution of intelligence sharing, offering a thorough analysis ...
By: Josh Luberisse
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Means of Control
- How the Hidden Alliance of Tech and Government Is Creating a New American Surveillance State
- By: Byron Tau
- Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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For the past five years—ever since a chance encounter at a dinner party—journalist Byron Tau has been piecing together a secret story: how the whole of the internet and every digital device in the world became a mechanism of intelligence, surveillance, and monitoring.
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Up to date in an information tsunami world
- By Mark A Vega on 04-23-24
By: Byron Tau
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Data Grab
- The New Colonialism of Big Tech and How to Fight Back
- By: Ulises A. Mejias, Nick Couldry
- Narrated by: Laurence Dobiesz
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Colonialism has not disappeared; it has taken a new form. In the new world order where data is the new oil, big Tech companies are grabbing our most basic natural resources - our data - exploiting our labour and connections, and repackaging our information to control our views, track our movements, record our conversations and discriminate against us. In this searing, cutting-edge guide, two leading global researchers and founders of the concept of data colonialism reveal how history can help us understand the emerging future - and how we can fight back.
By: Ulises A. Mejias, and others
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Taking Privacy Seriously
- How to Create the Rights We Need While We Still Have Something to Protect
- By: James B. Rule
- Narrated by: Gregory Abbey
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Taking Privacy Seriously offers both a hard-hitting assessment of the origins of today’s privacy-eroding practices and a robust road map for creating individual authority over our personal data. James B. Rule proposes eleven key reforms in the control and use of personal information—including far-reaching new rights for individuals and meaningful responsibilities for data-keeping organizations—all aimed at redressing the balance of power between ordinary citizens and data hungry corporate and government institutions.
By: James B. Rule
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Code Dependent
- Living in the Shadow of AI
- By: Madhumita Murgia
- Narrated by: Madhumita Murgia
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Through the voices of ordinary people in places far removed from Silicon Valley, Code Dependent explores the impact of a set of powerful, flawed, and often exploitative technologies on individuals, communities, and our wider society. Madhumita Murgia, AI Editor at the FT, exposes how AI can strip away our collective and individual sense of agency – and shatter our illusion of free will.
By: Madhumita Murgia
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Our Biggest Fight
- Reclaiming Liberty, Humanity, and Dignity in the Digital Age
- By: Frank H. McCourt Jr., Michael J. Casey - contributor
- Narrated by: Frank H. McCourt Jr., Michael J. Casey, Jonathan Beville
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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It was once a utopian dream. But today’s internet, despite its conveniences and connectivity, is the primary cause of a pervasive unease that has taken hold in the U.S. and other democratic societies. The roots of this crisis, argue Frank McCourt and Michael Casey, lie in the prevailing order of the internet. In plain but forceful language, the authors—a civic entrepreneur and an acclaimed journalist—show how a centralized system controlled by a small group of for-profit entities has set this catastrophe in motion and eroded our personhood.
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We can make Ai work for us by starting to claim our own data!
- By Amazon Customer on 04-20-24
By: Frank H. McCourt Jr., and others
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A Comprehensive Framework for Adapting National Intelligence for Domestic Law Enforcement
- By: Josh Luberisse
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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"A Comprehensive Framework for Adapting National Intelligence for Domestic Law Enforcement" is a groundbreaking book that delves into the intricate process of integrating sophisticated national intelligence methodologies into domestic law enforcement practices. Authored by a seasoned expert in the field of private intelligence, this book emerges as a critical resource for military leaders, policymakers, members of the intelligence community, and law enforcement personnel. This insightful work begins by exploring the historical evolution of intelligence sharing, offering a thorough analysis ...
By: Josh Luberisse
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Means of Control
- How the Hidden Alliance of Tech and Government Is Creating a New American Surveillance State
- By: Byron Tau
- Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance
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For the past five years—ever since a chance encounter at a dinner party—journalist Byron Tau has been piecing together a secret story: how the whole of the internet and every digital device in the world became a mechanism of intelligence, surveillance, and monitoring.
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Up to date in an information tsunami world
- By Mark A Vega on 04-23-24
By: Byron Tau
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Data Grab
- The New Colonialism of Big Tech and How to Fight Back
- By: Ulises A. Mejias, Nick Couldry
- Narrated by: Laurence Dobiesz
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Colonialism has not disappeared; it has taken a new form. In the new world order where data is the new oil, big Tech companies are grabbing our most basic natural resources - our data - exploiting our labour and connections, and repackaging our information to control our views, track our movements, record our conversations and discriminate against us. In this searing, cutting-edge guide, two leading global researchers and founders of the concept of data colonialism reveal how history can help us understand the emerging future - and how we can fight back.
By: Ulises A. Mejias, and others