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By Robert O'Harrow
In No position to conceal, award-winning Washington submit reporter Robert O'Harrow, Jr., pulls again the curtain on an unsettling pattern: the emergence of a data-driven surveillance society purpose on giving us the conveniences and prone we crave, like cellphones, playing cards, and digital toll passes, whereas observing us extra heavily than ever earlier than. He indicates that because the September eleven, 2001, terror assaults, the knowledge giants were enlisted as deepest intelligence providers for fatherland protection. And at a time whilst businesses normally gather billions of information about approximately each American grownup, No position to conceal shines a vibrant gentle at the sorry nation of data safeguard, revealing how humans can lose keep an eye on in their privateness and identities at any second. Now with a brand new afterword that info the most recent protection breaches and the government's failing efforts to prevent them, O'Harrow exhibits us that, during this new global of high-tech family intelligence, there's actually no position to conceal. As O'Harrow writes, "This e-book is all approximately you and your individual details -- and the tale is not pretty."
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In a very few generations- SENATOR LEAHY WOULD DESCRIBE those days as among the most chal lenging and emotional of his twenty-eight years in the Senate. He was saddled with the responsibility of crafting the Senate proposal for anti terrorism legislation. He didn't want to ram a bad law through Con gress, but he also didn't want to be seen as an obstructionist. He offered to negotiate a bill directly with the White House, avoiding the time-consuming committee approval process. Now he had to come up with a way of maintaining meaningful privacy protections while ex panding the government's surveillance powers. To GET TO THE PLACE where Charles Morgan made his fortune, you must drive through the forested hills north of Litde Rock, Arkansas, and then along the dense commercial strip of asphalt that cuts through the small city of Conway. Conway is a fo�er railroad town with three colleges. Like Acxiom, the city has grown a lot in recent years, and now parts of it are overrun by fast-food restaurants, strip malls, and congestion. Despite the changes, the Acxiom campus remains a source of community pride, and Morgan something of a local hero.