The New Conquistadors: Surveillance Capitalism and the Digital Frontier Between Your Ears
There is a chapter in Edward Snowden’s memoir Permanent Record that receives less attention than it deserves—not the chapter about PRISM or XKeyscore or the Hong Kong hotel room, but the chapter…
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