This book applies a historical perspective to prime readers on the debate regarding how surveillance may infringe on civil liberties.


* Serves as a comprehensive and highly topical reference for surveillance, privacy, and security issues in a scholarly yet readable format

* Assesses the balance between security and privacy as well as how conceptions of them are developing on the international stage

* Considers how technology is ending governmental secrecy and personal privacy

* Examines what the U.S. government is doing to address digital surveillance issues

* Addresses hot-topic issues such as the Snowden case, data mining, NSA phone tapping, and drone surveillance