TY  - GEN
T1  - The listeners : a history of wiretapping in the United States
A1  - Hochman, Brian, 1980-
LA  - English
PP  - Cambridge, Massachusetts
PB  - Harvard University Press
YR  - 2022
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_dda_on1298393804
AB  - Wiretapping is nearly as old as electronic communications. Telegraph operators intercepted enemy messages during the Civil War. Law enforcement agencies were listening to private telephone calls as early as 1895. Communications firms have assisted government eavesdropping programs since the early twentieth century--and they have spied on their own customers too. Such breaches of privacy once provoked outrage, but today most Americans have resigned themselves to constant electronic monitoring. How did we get from there to here? In The Listeners, Brian Hochman shows how the wiretap evolved from a specialized intelligence-gathering tool to a mundane fact of life. He explores the origins of wiretapping in military campaigns and criminal confidence games and tracks the use of telephone taps in the United States government's wars on alcohol, communism, terrorism, and crime. While high-profile eavesdropping scandals fueled public debates about national security, crime control, and the rights and liberties of individuals, wiretapping became a routine surveillance tactic for private businesses and police agencies alike. From wayward lovers to foreign spies, from private detectives to public officials, and from the silver screen to the Supreme Court, The Listeners traces the long and surprising history of wiretapping and electronic eavesdropping in the United States. Along the way, Hochman considers how earlier generations of Americans confronted threats to privacy that now seem more urgent than ever.
OP  - 360
CN  - HV7936.T4 H63 2022eb
SN  - 9780674275737
SN  - 067427573X
SN  - 9780674275720
SN  - 0674275721
SN  - 9780674249288
SN  - 0674249283
KW  - Wiretapping : United States : History.
KW  - Electronic surveillance : United States : History.
KW  - Écoute électronique : États-Unis : Histoire.
KW  - Surveillance électronique : États-Unis : Histoire.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Privacy & Surveillance (see also POLITICAL SCIENCE : Privacy & Surveillance)
KW  - Electronic surveillance
KW  - Wiretapping
KW  - United States
KW  - bugging.
KW  - communications privacy.
KW  - electronic eavesdropping.
KW  - electronic espionage.
KW  - electronic privacy.
KW  - electronic surveillance.
KW  - government surveillance.
KW  - history of surveillance.
KW  - snooping.
KW  - spying.
KW  - surveillance state.
KW  - surveillance technology.
KW  - telephone tapping.
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - History
ER  -