Mass surveillance conducted by government authorities around the world - ranging from despotic regimes in countries like Egypt and Syria to the U.S. National Security Agency - threaten the privacy of everyone on the planet. Many of these activities are illegal and unconstitutional - as we describe in Verax: The True History of Whistleblowers, Drone Warfare, and Mass Surveillance. These government agencies use a wide variety of technologies created by private contractors like Amesys, Gamma, Hacking Team, Qosmos and Vastech. You can learn more from the following list of resources that complement our book.
Books
@War: The Rise of the Military-Internet Complex, Shane Harris, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015
No Place to Hide, Glenn Greenwald, Henry Holt, 2014
The Snowden Files, Luke Harding, Vintage Books, 2014
Deep State: Inside the Government Secrecy Industry, Marc Ambinder and D.B. Grady, Wiley, 2013
The Watchers, Shane Harris, Penguin, 2011
Spies for Hire: The Secret World of Intelligence Outsourcing, Tim Shorrock, Simon & Schuster, 2008
The Shadow Factory, James Bamford, 2008
Body of Secrets, James Bamford, 2001
The Puzzle Palace, James Bamford, 1982
Movies
Snowden, Oliver Stone, 2016
Citizen Four, Laura Poitras, 2014
Selected articles by the authors
The Wild West of Surveillance
Big Bro Wants You
Hacking Team Spy Software Identified on U.S. Servers
Selling Your Secrets: The Invisible World of Software Backdoors and Bounty Hunters
Smartphone Game Data Targeted by NSA: Angry Birds Cited
The Jason Bourne Strategy: CIA Contractors Do Hollywood
Six Telecom Companies Face Formal Complaint for Collusion With UK Spy Agency
The Data Hackers: Mining Your Information for Big Brother
Turning the Table on the Trackers: Wikileaks Sniffs out Spy Salesmen
Turkmenistan and Oman Negotiated to Buy Spy Software: Wikileaks
Glimmerglass Intercepts Undersea Cable Traffic for Spy Agencies
ACLU Reveals FBI Hacking Contractors
Surveillance Contractor Bug In Ecuador Embassy Fails to Stop Wikileaks
Edward Snowden and the National Security Industrial Complex
Google & Facebook Discussed Secret Systems for U.S. to Spy on Users
Verizon (and Google) Helped U.S. Government to Spy on Reporters
State of Surveillance
Big data: the greater good or invasion of privacy?
Raytheon Video Claims Riot Software Can Track Users Via Social Networks
“Cyberazzi” – Data Mining Companies Investigated for Invasion of Privacy
TrapWire Leaks Shine Light on New Video Tracking Technologies
U.S. Federal Agencies Targeted Employees With Commercial Spy Software
Facebook Lobbies Washington to “Like” Spying on Users
Big Brother in Iran: With A Little Help From Chinese and European Companies
The Urgency of a Computer Virus Nonproliferation Treaty
WikiLeaks’ Stratfor Dump Lifts Lid on Intelligence-Industrial Complex
The New Cyber-Industrial Complex Spying On Us
U.S. Company Admits Its Technology Has Been Used by Syrian Government
US Technology Used to Censor the Internet in Syria Claim Expert
@War: The Rise of the Military-Internet Complex, Shane Harris, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015
No Place to Hide, Glenn Greenwald, Henry Holt, 2014
The Snowden Files, Luke Harding, Vintage Books, 2014
Deep State: Inside the Government Secrecy Industry, Marc Ambinder and D.B. Grady, Wiley, 2013
The Watchers, Shane Harris, Penguin, 2011
Spies for Hire: The Secret World of Intelligence Outsourcing, Tim Shorrock, Simon & Schuster, 2008
The Shadow Factory, James Bamford, 2008
Body of Secrets, James Bamford, 2001
The Puzzle Palace, James Bamford, 1982
Movies
Snowden, Oliver Stone, 2016
Citizen Four, Laura Poitras, 2014
Selected articles by the authors
The Wild West of Surveillance
Big Bro Wants You
Hacking Team Spy Software Identified on U.S. Servers
Selling Your Secrets: The Invisible World of Software Backdoors and Bounty Hunters
Smartphone Game Data Targeted by NSA: Angry Birds Cited
The Jason Bourne Strategy: CIA Contractors Do Hollywood
Six Telecom Companies Face Formal Complaint for Collusion With UK Spy Agency
The Data Hackers: Mining Your Information for Big Brother
Turning the Table on the Trackers: Wikileaks Sniffs out Spy Salesmen
Turkmenistan and Oman Negotiated to Buy Spy Software: Wikileaks
Glimmerglass Intercepts Undersea Cable Traffic for Spy Agencies
ACLU Reveals FBI Hacking Contractors
Surveillance Contractor Bug In Ecuador Embassy Fails to Stop Wikileaks
Edward Snowden and the National Security Industrial Complex
Google & Facebook Discussed Secret Systems for U.S. to Spy on Users
Verizon (and Google) Helped U.S. Government to Spy on Reporters
State of Surveillance
Big data: the greater good or invasion of privacy?
Raytheon Video Claims Riot Software Can Track Users Via Social Networks
“Cyberazzi” – Data Mining Companies Investigated for Invasion of Privacy
TrapWire Leaks Shine Light on New Video Tracking Technologies
U.S. Federal Agencies Targeted Employees With Commercial Spy Software
Facebook Lobbies Washington to “Like” Spying on Users
Big Brother in Iran: With A Little Help From Chinese and European Companies
The Urgency of a Computer Virus Nonproliferation Treaty
WikiLeaks’ Stratfor Dump Lifts Lid on Intelligence-Industrial Complex
The New Cyber-Industrial Complex Spying On Us
U.S. Company Admits Its Technology Has Been Used by Syrian Government
US Technology Used to Censor the Internet in Syria Claim Expert
