Price, David H.
Summary: "When the possibility of wiretapping first became known to Americans they were outraged. Now, in our post-9/11 world, it's accepted that corporations are vested with human rights, and government agencies and corporations use computers to monitor our private lives. David H. Price pulls back the curtain to reveal how the FBI and other government agencies have always functioned as the secret...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pluto Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323.44 PRISummary: This crime thriller follows presumed-dead former CIA agent, John Reese, who teams up with mysterious billionaire Harold Finch to prevent violent crimes with high-tech surveillance and their own brand of vigilante justice. With Finch missing, Reese enlists Detectives Joss Carter and Lionel Fusco to join the search for his friend. Will Reese and his team find Finch before it₂s too late? Who will...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV PERRosenzweig, Paul
Summary: A course of 24 lectures by Professor Paul Rosenzweig.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323.4482 SURSummary: In season five, the cold war is over. The world around us might look the same, but something has drastically changed. Samaritan's lethal correction has initiated its control. Finch's Machine is essentially dead. Shaw is still missing. And the team is once again hiding in plain sight. But with Samaritan's invisible grip tightening everywhere, will Finch be able to rebuild and resurrect The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV PERGreenberg, Louis
Summary: When Lucie Sterling's daughter is abducted, she knows it'll be no easy feat to find answers. Stanton is no ordinary city: invasive digital technology has been banned, by public vote. No surveillance state, no shadowy companies holding databases of information on private citizens, no phones tracking their every move. Only one place stays firmly anchored in the bad old ways, in a huge bunker...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult- Science Fiction, Call number: SF GreenbergSummary: Big Ed Deline is the President of Operations and the head of the surveillance team for the Montecito Resort & Casino. With his right-hand man, they deal with card-counting cheaters and rival casinos stealing their players. Includes all 24 episodes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A talk show host and his wife and son seem to be living an ideal life until clandestinely-filmed videotapes of their private lives start to show up on their front porch. As the tapes reveal more secrets, the resulting stress and fear leads to conflict, obsession, and deceit for the couple and brings back episodes from the husband's childhood when he wronged a young Algerian boy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF CACArchambault, Brigitte
Summary: "A woman lives alone in a small house situated in a tidy yard surrounded by a seemingly impenetrable wall. She spends her days reading, swimming, and watching TV. She eats regular meals and keeps her house clean. But the simplicity is deceiving, because the woman has no idea how she came to live in her house, and--most importantly-what exists beyond the wall. Her only source of information is a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BDANG 2021
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 ARCSummary: With unprecedented access, this behind-the-scenes chronicle follows director Laura Poitras and journalist Glenn Greenwald's encounters with whistle-blower Edward Snowden in a hotel room in Hong Kong, as he hands over classified documents that provide evidence of mass indiscriminate and illegal invasions of privacy by the NSA.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2015
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CITSummary: In Genocidal Organ, while developed countries rely on advanced surveillance to free them from the threat of terrorism, other nations are plagued by genocide within their own borders. Strangely, these massacres all link back to one American by the name of John Paul. Special agent Clavis Shepherd is sent to capture the target, but nothing can prepare this soldier, or the world'for the truth...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME GENSummary: Although they've saved countless lives thanks to The Machine's omniscience, Reese and Finch, along with lethal operative Shaw, and unpredictable cyber-hacker Root, now face an uncertain future. With a second machine, Samaritan, now online, the elusive team now find themselves as targets, hiding in plain sight.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV PERSummary: The incredible untold story of Edward Snowden, the polarizing figure who exposed shocking illegal surveillance activities by the NSA and became one of the most wanted men in the world. He is considered a hero by some, and a traitor by others.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SNOCopies Available at Peninsula
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Summary: Explores the topic of surveillance, discussing how personal data is electronically captured and used by both public and private organizations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Annick Press 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 340 KYIScott, Brett
Summary: A monetary anthropologist examines how the drive to create a cashless digital money empire could lead to dire consequences for our civil liberties and create a dangerous nexus of Big Finance and Big Tech.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Business, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.4 SCOSummary: Americans have long debated how to balance protecting individual liberties while assuring public safety. This debate intensified after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, which prompted passage of the USA Patriot Act and other laws. These measures were designed to protect Americans from terrorism, but they also allowed increased government scrutiny of individual activities. Is it...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: This edition of Frontline examines the consequences of the Bush administration's domestic war on terrorism. Reporter Hedrick Smith details how the National Security Agency's domestic surveillance program works and considers whether or not it jeopardizes Americans' civil liberties. The program looks at clashing viewpoints on whether Bush violated the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Meier, Barry
Summary: A Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist's examination of the booming industry shaping the modern world: former journalists and spies going for hire, and financed by companies, politicians, lawyers, and the rich and powerful to excavate the lives of their enemies and opponents for dirt and secrets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, and imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021