The listeners [electronic resource] : a history of wiretapping in the United States

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서명/저자사항	The listeners [electronic resource]: a history of wiretapping in the United States / Brian Hochman
개인저자	Hochman, Brian, 1980- author.
발행사항	Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2022
형태사항	1 online resource : illustrations
기타형태 저록	Print version Hochman, Brian, 1980- Listeners Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2022 9780674249288
ISBN	0674275721 9780674275720 9780674275737 067427573X
서지주기	Includes bibliographical references and index
내용주기	Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction: The Ballad of D. C. Williams -- Part One: Dirty Business -- 1. Stolen Signals and Whispering Wires -- 2. Detective Burns Goes to Washington -- 3. To Intercept and Divulge -- 4. The Wiretapper's Nest -- Part Two: The Bug in the Martini Olive -- 5. Eavesdroppers -- 6. Tapping God's Telephone -- Part Three: The Listening Age -- 7. Title III -- 8. Big Brother, Where Art Thou? -- 9. Limited Assistance Necessary -- 10. Off the Wire -- Epilogue: King's Call, Hoover's Tap -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index
요약	They've been listening for longer than you think. A new history reveals how--and why. Wiretapping is nearly as old as electronic communications. Telegraph operators intercepted enemy messages during the Civil War. Law enforcement agencies were listening to private telephone calls as early as 1895. Communications firms have assisted government eavesdropping programs since the early twentieth century--and they have spied on their own customers too. Such breaches of privacy once provoked outrage, but today most Americans have resigned themselves to constant electronic monitoring. How did we get from there to here? In The Listeners, Brian Hochman shows how the wiretap evolved from a specialized intelligence-gathering tool to a mundane fact of life. He explores the origins of wiretapping in military campaigns and criminal confidence games and tracks the use of telephone taps in the US government's wars on alcohol, communism, terrorism, and crime. While high-profile eavesdropping scandals fueled public debates about national security, crime control, and the rights and liberties of individuals, wiretapping became a routine surveillance tactic for private businesses and police agencies alike. From wayward lovers to foreign spies, from private detectives to public officials, and from the silver screen to the Supreme Court, The Listeners traces the long and surprising history of wiretapping and electronic eavesdropping in the United States. Along the way, Brian Hochman considers how earlier generations of Americans confronted threats to privacy that now seem more urgent than ever
주제명(지명)	United States --fast
일반주제명	Wiretapping --United States --History. Electronic surveillance --United States --History. E?coute e?lectronique --E?tats-Unis --Histoire. Surveillance e?lectronique --E?tats-Unis --Histoire. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Privacy & Surveillance (see also POLITICAL SCIENCE / Privacy & Surveillance) Electronic surveillance Wiretapping
분류기호(DDC)	363.252
언어	영어
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