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DESCRIPTION:KPFA Radio 94.1FM presents: \n\n   ROBERT SCHEER\n   “They Know 
 Everything About You”\n    Hosted by Philip Maldari 
 \n…………………………………………………………………………………………………………\nThursday, 
 February 26, 7:30 PM\nFirst Congregational Church, 2345 Channing Way, 
 Berkeley \n$12 advance tickets: 
 http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/1138564 :: 800-838-3006   or Pegasus 
 (3 sites)   Moe’s, Walden Pond Bookstore, Diesel a Bookstore, Mrs. 
 Dalloway’s Books   SF: Modern Times, $15 door, KPFA benefit   
 www.kpfa.org/events 
 \n………………………………………………………………………………………………\nRobert 
 Scheer’s robust conversations with KPFA’s Sunday morning host Philip 
 Maldari have become legendary for their intellectual ferocity and rich 
 humor.  Now they meet in an open public forum for the first 
 time.\n\nData-collecting corporations and snooping government agencies are 
 destroying democracy, insists Robert Scheer. In the first week of June 
 2013, the American people discovered that for an entire decade, they had 
 abjectly traded their individual privacy for the chimera of national 
 security. The revelation that the federal government has full access to all 
 phone records and the vast trove of presumably private personal data posted 
 on the Internet has brought the threat of a surveillance society to the 
 fore.   \n\nBut the erosion of privacy rights extends far beyond big 
 government. Big Business has long played a leading role in hollowing out 
 our personal freedoms. In They Know Everything About You, Robert Scheer 
 reveals how our most intimate habits, from private correspondence, book 
 pages read, and lists of friends and phone conversations have been 
 seamlessly combined in order to create detailed maps of individuals’ 
 social and biological DNA. \n\nThe Constitution’s Fourth Amendment 
 guarantee of the sovereignty of the individual —“The right of the 
 people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against 
 unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated”— is being 
 treated as an irrelevant relic of a bygone civilization.  Our freedom has 
 been squandered in the dubious name of national security and consumer 
 convenience.  We must challenge, Scheer argues, the assumption that 
 protecting national security demands sacrificing the constitutional rights 
 of the individual.\n\nRobert Scheer, former national affairs correspondent 
 and columnist for the Los Angeles Times, is the editor-in-chief of the 
 online magazine Truthdig and professor at U.S.C.’s Annenberg School for 
 Communication and Journalism. He is the author of many books, including The 
 Great American Stickup.\n\nPHILIP MALDARI is the longtime host of KPFA’s 
 Sunday morning show. \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/02/02/18767965.php
SUMMARY:Robert Scheer: They Know Everything About You
LOCATION:First Congregational Church of Berkeley\n2345 Channing Way, Berkeley
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/02/02/18767965.php
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