This collection represents the first sustained attempt to grapple with the complex and often paradoxical relationships between surveillance and democracy. Is su

The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unprecedented form of power called "surveillance capitalism," and

Hackers as vital disruptors, inspiring a new wave of activism in which ordinary citizens take back democracy. Hackers have a bad reputation, as shady deployers

Privacy, which digital citizens eagerly relinquish, is not so essential to the health and welfare of democracy after all.

In this well-informed yet anxious age, public administrators have constructed vast cisterns that collect and interpret a meteoric shower of facts. In Surveillan