American Spies

Jennifer Granick is Director of Civil Liberties at Stanford Law School. She practices, speaks and writes about computer crime and security, electronic surveillance, consumer privacy, and data protection.

'… what makes American Spies of value is Granick's perspective as a lawyer. What may be most interesting for the layperson is her uncovering of fraud in surveillance law. Legal terms have been perverted to the purpose of allowing those who run the spy agencies to deny they are spying. American Spies is well organized, to the point …' Robert Schaefer, New York Journal of Books

• 1. Modern surveillance: massive, classified, and indiscriminate; 2. Word games; 3. Snowden, surveillance whistleblowers, and democracy; 4. We kill people based on metadata; 5. The shadow of September 11th; 6. Modern surveillance and counterterrorism; 7. Americans caught up in the foreign intelligence net; 8. Warrantless wiretapping of Americans under Section 702; 9. Nothing to hide?: a short history of surveillance abuses; 10. The minimal comfort of minimization; 11. Do unto others: why Americans should protect foreigners' privacy rights; 12. US surveillance law before September 11th; 13. American spies after September 11th: illegality and legalism; 14. Modern surveillance and the Fourth Amendment; 15. The failures of external oversight; 16. The National InSecurity Agency; 17. The future of surveillance.