Surveillance State

By Josh Chin and Liza Lin

How China Communist Party is creating a government control on all the areas of citizens? Moreover, how the government use the collected data to gently push people to what needs to be wanted.

Surveillance State gives a real-life overview how personal information can be utilized to manipulate the very owner of the data.

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

by Shoshana Zuboff

A broad overview on the collection and the utilization of personal data on the internet. Who holds the power if ones’ information is shared to manipulate the very oneself?

Zuboff takes a brave approach to warn people on protecting their private information over third parties.

Surveillance Capitalism in America

by Josh Lauer and Kenneth Lipartitio

A historical approach on the America’s relationship with surveillance and capitalism.

Lauer and Lipartitio deep dives into the American surveillance history, before internet, to understand the logic of surveillance and how it is capitalized through private and government entities.

Surveillance and Surveillance Detection

by John C. Kiriakou

A former CIA officer spilled out how government watches, listens, and sees citizens. Moreover, how you can be aware of such and keep your information safe.

Kiriakou offers an insiders perspective on the relationship between the government and citizens.

The American Surveillance State

by David H. Price

After 9/11, it was the new normal for corporations and the government to monitor us.

Price presents how various federal agencies help the government to surveil citizens’ private lives. You will be learning about the patterns and tricks used to collect personal data and shared with the state.

1984

by George Orwell

Every inch of the past, present, and future is constantly changing with the will of the government. No information is hidden, but used to manipulate the owners.

Orwell offers an insight what would happen if the government has the power to reach all the information we have, and use it against us, the humanity.

The Handmaid’s Tale

by Margaret Atwood

The only job, as a handmaid, is to give birth of the future generation. As the population decreases, the government implies new policies to increase the numbers. Everyone, under the strict surveillance, has to obey their ranks. The outsiders are sent to their ends.

Is it possible to be visible and so invisible at the same time? Are you a human being if you don’t have a free-will? Atwood aims to answer these questions for the reader.

The Circle

by Dave Eggers

A new position in a big tech company. Life cannot be better. With its sleeping rooms and vast gardens to relax in between work, nothing can be more free.

Until you are watched by the world every second of your life.

Eggers presents the horrifying truth of loosing yourself after sharing too much.

We

by Yevgeny Zamyatin

Living in a glass apartment, and being watched by the government 24/7. No one has identity nor a self.

Until a mathematician falls in love. He is separated from the societal norms, he is separated from the surveillance.

Banned in Russia for more than 60-years, We offers a perspective on being oneself in an over-controlled community.

Fahrenheit 451

by Ray Bradbury

It’s the heat when books burn to ashes, Fahrenheit 451.

The government ordered to burn all the books. Guy Montag is a firefighter, yet he isn’t working on putting them out but creating flames to burn the house with books.

Bradbury offers an insights how, with the advancement of technology, surveillance can manipulate the population through censorship.