Surveillance Valley

Everything we have been told about the democratic nature of the internet is a marketing ploy

Tempted by their appealing organisational and diagnostic tools, we have allowed private internet corporations access to the most intimate corners of our lives.

But the internet was developed, from the outset, as a weapon.

Conceived as a surveillance tool by ARPA to control insurgents in the Vietnam War, the internet is now essential to our lives. This book investigates the troubling and unavoidable truth of its history and the unfathomable power of the corporations who more or less own it.

Without this book, your picture of contemporary society will be missing an essential piece of the puzzle.