About Surveillance Valley
Surveillance Valley is a book by Yasha Levine that investigates Silicon Valley's for-profit surveillance business, including the deep ties between big tech and the military-industrial complex and the increasing ways all this technology is being used to control our lives.
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From the beginning of the Internet revolution, we have been told that we are witnessing the dawn of a new and liberating technology — a technology that will decentralize power, topple entrenched bureaucracies and bring more democracy and equality to the world.
But the Internet did the exact opposite. It produced massive global corporations, helped concentrate wealth and power, and expanded the reach of the U.S. National Security State, creating an opaque world of total surveillance where corporations and intelligence agencies work hand in hand to track and profile us in the name of profit and security.
How did a technology that supposedly held so such democratic promise so quickly devolve into the dystopian reality we see today? How is all this concentrated power affecting our democratic society? What does it all mean? Where is it going? And do we have the power to stop it?
These are some of the overarching questions tackled in Surveillance Valley.
Illustration by Brad Jonas