Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet

Author: Yasha Levine Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 As the Cambridge Analytica scandal has shown, private corporations consider it their right to use our data (and by extension, us) which ever way they see fit. Looking at the hidden origins of many internet corporations and platforms, Levine shows that this is a function, not a bug of the online experience. Beginning as a surveillance tool developed by ARPA for the Vietnam War, the internet has become essential...Read more