We Know All About You: The Story Of Surveillance In Britain And America

301 Pages·2017·2.1 MB·English

by  Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones

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WE KNOW ALL ABOUT YOU
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WE KNOW ALL
ABOUT YOU
The Story of Surveillance in Britain and
America
RHODRI JEFFREYS-JONES
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CONTENTS
List of Illustrations vii
Acknowledgements ix
Introduction 1
1. A Survey of Surveillance 7
2. The Private Eye Invades our Privacy 35
3. The Blacklist 56
4. Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Incipient Surveillance State 75
5. McCarthyism in America 93
6. McCarthyism in Britain 109
7. COINTELPRO and 1960s Surveillance 127
8. An Age of Transparency 145
9. The Intensification of Surveillance Post-9/11 170
10. Private-Sector Surveillance in the
Twenty-First Century 185
11. Snowden 201
12. Policy and Reform in the Obama–Cameron Era 220
Conclusion 243
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Appendix: Defining Surveillance 247
Notes 250
Bibliography 266
Illustration Credits 278
Index 279
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
1. Private CCTV around Orwell’s address 4
2. James McParland 38
3. Ralph H. L. Van Deman and others 61
4. Big Brother is listening to you 119
5. Italian surveillance 165
6. Arthur! 166
7. UnAmerican leaker 181
8. Anti-blacklist demonstration 241
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I would like to acknowledge the help of a number of individuals
who helped me prepare this book for publication: Paul Addison,
David Anderson, Richard B. Bernstein, Alun Burge, Duncan
Campbell, Doug Charles, Bob Cherny, Frank Cogliano, Malcolm
Craig, Jane Dawson, Harry Dickinson, Owen Dudley Edwards,
Sylvia Ellis, Neil Evans, Frances Goldin, Alex Goodall, Annette
Gordon-Reed, Fabian Hilfrich, Louise Jackson, Jay Kleinberg, John
A. Logan, Chris Moran, Kathy Olmsted, David Omand, Lucy
Parker, Damien Van Puyvelde, Charles Raab, Rob Singh, David
Stafford, Pat Storey, and Reg Whitaker.
These men and women showed exceptional collegiality in
advising me on research and in supplying critiques of my work in
draft. Many corrections and improvements came from my private
readers, and frank advice caused me to delete various ill-conceived
passages.
The idea for the book arose in conversation with Matthew
Cotton at OUP, and he has been a most supportive editor.
To all the foregoing, I am deeply grateful.
If I have retained my sanity throughout these proceedings, it is
thanks to the distractions of matrimony, and for that I am grateful,
as ever, to my wife Mary.
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