Illusions of security : global surveillance and democracy in the post-9/11 world / Maureen Webb.
| Author/creator | Webb, Maureen |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | City Lights Books 1st ed. |
| Publication Info | San Francisco, USA : City Lights Books, ©2007. |
| Description | xiii, 305 pages ; 21 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Table of contents only |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Prologue: Monia's children -- The cautionary tale of Maher Arar -- The tip of an iceberg: the President's secret spying -- The new mantra: pre-emption of risk -- The new mantra and the agenda for mass, globalized registration and surveillance -- Biometric registration of alien populations -- Mass detentions of Muslim immigrants and registration through NSEERS US VISIT and the E.U. Visa Information System -- Biometric visas -- Linkage of biometric information to a global web of databases -- U.S. acquisition of domestic and foreign databases -- The template for the global system of mass registration and surveillance -- Biometric registration of citizens and the creation of a global identification system -- Biometric passports -- Policy laundering; referral to ICAO -- The model: carte blanche -- RFID chips -- Biometric passports and the democratic deficit -- Flawed technology and assumptions -- Expansion to other transportation systems -- Institutionalizing "non-personhood" -- The creation of an infrastructure for the global surveillance of movement -- U.S. demands for sharing passenger name records -- The deals made -- PNR and the democratic deficit; another referral to ICAO -- Expansion to other transportation systems -- The creation of an infrastructure for the surveillance of electronic communications and financial transactions globally and domestically -- "Building in surveillance" and the convention on cybercrime -- Mandatory data retention -- Expansion of Echelon -- Mandatory information-gathering and reporting for financial transactions -- Deep integration and the loss of sovereign checks and balances -- The corporate security complex -- The expropriation of the democratic commons -- A loss of moral compass; rendition, torture, death -- The global gulag -- Detention centers used by the U.S -- The practice of rendition -- Disappearance -- The assertion of a legal black hole and authority to torture -- Torture committed by U.S. personnel -- The plan to build permanent prisons outside the U.S -- The participation of other Western democracies -- New license for brutal regimes -- Illusions of security -- Resisting the registration and surveillance agenda -- Pockets of resistance -- NGOs -- Democratic institutions -- Courts -- The future is in our hands. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-284) and index. |
| LCCN | 2006018066 |
| ISBN | 0872864766 |
| ISBN | 9780872864764 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | JC599.U5 W364 2007 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |