We are in the midst of a data revolution, and driving this seismic change isn't just Facebook or Google, but information we readily give up everyday through our online activities. In "Dragnet Nation," ...

To understand how much commerce has changed in recent years, consider a simple trip to the grocery store. When you drive to the store now, your movements are recorded by your cellphone provider, your ...

Julia Angwin might want to cut Edward Snowden some royalty checks. As a reporter for the Wall Street Journal from 2000 to 2013, Angwin reported for years about the intersection of privacy and new ...

St. Martin’s Griffin, 2015 (us.macmillan.com), 299 pages, $15.99. ISBN 978-1-250-06086-0 If it’s digital, then there’s a record. So when you go online, you are tracked. Everything from identity ...

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This essay is excerpted from Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security, and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance, by Julia Angwin, published by Times ...

President Bush, the nation's telecoms and the nation's top spook Michael McConnell are united in their efforts to have Congress give the nation's internet and phone companies immunity for massive ...