The Hacker and the State
Ben Buchanan
Published 2020
412 pages
The most popular surveillance books
Books about surveillance ask who is watching and why. Secret police files, cameras on every corner and companies that know your habits appear in histories, exposés and unsettling novels. They will make you think twice about what you share.
Results
The Internet Con How to Seize the Means of Computation
Cory Doctorow
Published 2023
192 pages
Act Of War
Jack Cheevers
Published 2013
384 pages
All our kin
Carol B. Stack
1974 · 1975 edition
175 pages
The Official CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception
H. Keith Melton
2009 · 2010 edition
268 pages
The Red Web
Andrei Soldatov, Irina Borogan
Published 2015
384 pages
Stasi
John O. Koehler
1998 · 2000 edition
478 pages
How America Lost Its Secrets Edward Snowden, the Man and the Theft
Edward Jay Epstein
Published 2017
350 pages
The Deep State The Fall of the Constitution and the Rise of a Shadow Government
Mike Lofgren
Published 2016
310 pages
Subversives The FBI's War on Student Radicals, and Reagan's Rise to Power
Seth Rosenfeld
2012 · 2013 edition
752 pages
Surveillance State Inside China's Quest to Launch a New Era of Social Control
Josh Chin, Liza Lin
Published 2022
320 pages
System Error Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot
Rob Reich, Mehran Sahami, Jeremy M. Weinstein
2021 · 2023 edition
352 pages
The Best of 2600 A Hacker Odyssey
Emmanuel Goldstein
Published 2008
888 pages
Internet for the People The Fight for Our Digital Future
Ben Tarnoff
Published 2022
272 pages
Verax The True History of Whistleblowers, Drone Warfare, and Mass Surveillance
Pratap Chatterjee
Published 2017
229 pages
Post-truth How Bullshit Conquered the World
James Ball
Published 2017
306 pages
Rigged America, Russia and 100 Years of Covert Electoral Interference
David Shimer
2020 · 2021 edition
384 pages
Kingdom of Lies
Kate Fazzini
Published 2019
256 pages
Sedition Hunters How January 6th Broke the Justice System
Ryan J. Reilly
Published 2023
467 pages
The Secret Life
Andrew O'Hagan
1994 · 2017 edition
272 pages
The WikiLeaks Files The World According to US Empire
Julian Assange
Published 2015
624 pages
The Right to Privacy
Caroline Kennedy
1995 · 1999 edition
405 pages
Sektion 20
Paul Dowswell
2011 · 2012 edition
288 pages
Obfuscation
Finn Brunton, Helen Nissenbaum
Published 2015
136 pages