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Look at my #bookhaul from #BarnesandNoble last Thursday! All in the clearance section! Practical books, discounted yoga gear, a gift for my mom (you guessed it the Hollywood Love Stories one), and I've wanted to know know more about reflexology. Omg this is why going to Barnes & Noble is risky for me!! I can find a lot in the bargain section!!

Important reminder of the role of an adversarial #freepress in keeping our government honest. Greenwald is the Guardian reporter who broke the Snowden story and won a Pulitzer for his reporting on the NSA domestic surveillance program. #FirstAmendment

I highly recommend this book. It was enlightening and also troubling to read the details of government surveillance programs aimed at private citizens along with corporate cooperation amid marketing promises of security and privacy. If you value privacy, it's a worthwhile read. I do wish the author had provided his thoughts on what citizens can do now that we know about the widespread surveillance in place.

I bought this on release, but have not read it yet.

Big bother is watching... I know it's cliche, but most definitely the US government is watching. Watching your every move. Well, not necessarily "your every move," but they definitely have the capabilities to trace your steps up to your latest one, if needed, or wanted.

Some call Snowden a hero, and some call him a traitor to the US for exposing certain secrets.

Educate yourself on the subject and see where you stand.

So I finally finished this. I came into this expecting it to be more of a reference book for each individual program used by the NSA; instead it was a narrative on the corruption of the US government on how it developed over time. Normally I liked this but it was slow pacing and hard to understand.

I AM SO CLOSE TO THE END! I don't know why this of all books is taking such a long time to finish, but so excited it's almost over!

Converting the Internet into a system of surveillance thus guts it of its core potential. Worse, it turns the Internet into a tool of repression, threatening to produce the most extreme and oppressive weapon of state intrusion human history has ever seen.