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DESCRIPTION:Data-collecting corporations and snooping government agencies are 
 destroying democracy, insists Robert Scheer. 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\nHosted by 
 PHILIP MALDARI, the longtime host of KPFA's Sunday morning show.  \n\n$12 
 advance tickets: :: 800-838-3006 or independent bookstores, $15 door, KPFA 
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 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/02/06/18768155.php
SUMMARY:Robert Scheer: They Know Everything About You
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