Recommended Reading August 22, 2025

Mass Surveillance

Beckett, Lois, "Everything We Know About What Data Brokers Know About You. ProPublica. June 13, 2014.

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Bennett, Colin, Kevin D. Haggerty, David Lyon and Valerie Steeves (eds.), Transparent Lives: Surveillance in Canada. Edmonton: Athabasca University Press, 2014. 

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Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic, “On the Data Trail: How detailed information about you gets into the hands of organizations with whom you have no relationship,” April, 2006. 

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Deibert, Ronald J., Chasing Shadows: Cyber Espionage, Subversion, and the Global Fight for Democracy. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2025.

Greenwald, Glenn, "New Study Shows Mass Surveillance Breeds Meekness, Fear and Self-Censorship" The Intercept, April 28, 2016

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Greenwald, Glenn, "Why Privacy Matters" TED Talk. October  2014

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Human Rights Watch & ACLU, With Liberty to Monitor All: How Large-Scale US Surveillance is Harming Journalism,Law, and American Democracy

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Marthews, Alex and Tucker, Catherine,  "Government Surveillance and Internet Search Behavior" Social Science Research Network. April 29, 2015

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PEN America, Chilling Effects: NSA Surveillance Drives US Writers to Self-Censor, November 12, 2013.

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PEN International, Global Chilling: The Impact of Mass Surveillance on International Writers. January 5, 2015

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Penney, Jonathan W., "Chilling Effects: Online Surveillance and Wikipedia Use" Berlekey Technology Law Journal

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