In Surveillance A-Z Danny Schechter illuminates one of the most complex and many-sided aspects of contemporary life: surveillance. Based on months of interviews with journalists, security experts, government officials and whistleblowers, it blasts open the brave new world in which we are living, where 'balance' has become a euphemism to justify massive surveillance; where dissent is equated with criminality; where those who abuse our most basic civil rights seem immune from reproach or prosecution; where a new type of soldier, 'warrior geeks' wage cyber war.