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Edward Snowden and cyber zombies

James Der Derian reviews 'The Snowden Files' by Luke Harding and 'No Place to Hide' by Glenn Greenwald
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June–July 2014, no. 362

The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World’s Most Wanted Man by Luke Harding

Guardian Books/Faber, $29.99 pb, 346 pp, 9781783350353

Book 2 Cover Small (400 x 600)

No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA and the Surveillance State by Glenn Greenwald

Hamish Hamilton, $29.99 pb, 259 pp, 9780241146705

Edward Snowden and cyber zombies

James Der Derian reviews 'The Snowden Files' by Luke Harding and 'No Place to Hide' by Glenn Greenwald
by
June–July 2014, no. 362

1984 is back. George Orwell’s nightmare vision of governmental surveillance, secrecy, and deception clearly resonates with the revelations first leaked to the Guardian by former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden. Indeed, it is practically impossible to find an account of the Snowden affair without at least one ‘Orwellian’ adjective dropped into the mix. Sometimes it comes qualified: Justice Richard J. Leon, District Court Judge for the District of Columbia ruling in December 2013 that the bulk collection of US mobile phone records was probably unconstitutional, called the NSA program ‘almost Orwellian’. This decision is currently under appeal.

James Der Derian reviews 'The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World’s Most Wanted Man' by Luke Harding and 'No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA and the Surveillance State' by Glenn Greenwald

The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World’s Most Wanted Man

by Luke Harding

Guardian Books/Faber, $29.99 pb, 346 pp, 9781783350353

Book 2 Cover Small (400 x 600)

No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA and the Surveillance State

by Glenn Greenwald

Hamish Hamilton, $29.99 pb, 259 pp, 9780241146705

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