Surveillance and Privacy: Express Yourself on our Twitter Chat
Join journalist Andrew Mitrovica in a Twitter chat about surveillance and the limits to free expression in contemporary society.
The chat takes place on Tuesday February 25 at 7 pm. Join the discussion wherever you have Internet access. Include the hashtag #telltplFreedom in your comments.
Questions to be considered include:
How should a democracy balance national security with freedom of expression?
Should Canadian authorities use Canadians in 'dry run' or 'practice' surveillance?
Is Snowden a hero or a terrorist?
Are you afraid of your government?
Books about Surveillance
Non-Fiction
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Internet and Surveillance: the Challenges of Web 2.0 and Social Media edited by Christian Fuchs, Kees Boersma, Anders Albrechtslund and Marisol Sandoval
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Introduction to Surveillance Studies by Julie K. Petersen
• eBook
Nothing to Hide: the False Tradeoff Between Privacy and Security by Daniel J. Solove
Popular Mechanics Who's Spying on You? The Looming Threat to your Privacy, Identity, and Family in the Digital Age by Erik Sofge and Davin Cosburn
Spying on Democracy: Government Surveillance, Corporate Power, and Public Resistance by Heidi Boghosian
• eBook
Fiction
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The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
• Audiobook
• eBook
A theocratic military dictatorship has stripped women of their rights, controlling them through strict regulation and constant surveillance.
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
• Audiobook
• eAudiobook
Young people rebel after a terrorist attack is used as an excuse to increase surveillance and reduce personal liberty.
The Panopticon by Jenni Fagan
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A young offender is sentenced to a facility where inmates are constantly watched.
Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart
• eAudiobook
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• Large Print
In near-future New York not only do the authorities know everything about an individual, but so does everyone else as smartphones share their owners' private data with the entire society.
The Traveler by John Twelve Hawks
• Audiobook
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• Large Print
• Talking Book (restricted to Print Disabled patrons)
A future society controls its population through constant monitoring but some individuals can move via astral projection, rendering them invisible to the CCTV cameras, heat sensors and RFID technology used by the authorities to track citizens.
Movies featuring Surveillance States
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Brazil
Taking its inspiration from Orwell's 1984, features a totalitarian government controlling the population through a complicated and flawed bureaucracy.
The Lives of Others
A Stasi officer is assigned to spy on a playwright but soon realizes that he has been misled about the reason for the surveillance.
Minority Report
In 2054, crime is all but eliminated thanks to the use of an elite "Precrime" squad which uses psychics to predict crime before it happens.
The Truman Show
A man is unaware that his idyllic life is staged so it can be broadcast as a television show.
V for Vendetta
A future totalitarian society maintains control through mass surveillance of its citizens.
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