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Today on Your Call: Is it possible to protect our privacy?

On today’s Your Call, we’ll have a conversation with investigative reporter Julia Angwin about her new book, Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security, and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance. With the NSA, Google, Facebook, and other private companies collecting massive amounts of information, is it possible to avoid ubiquitous surveillance? What does privacy mean in today’s hyper connected world? Join on the conversation on the next Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest:

Julia Angwin, award-winning investigative journalist at the independent news organization ProPublica

Web Resources:   

Julia Angwin: Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security, and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance

Huffington Post: The Corporate Surveillance State: How the Thought Police Use Your Cell Phone to Track Your Every Move

ACLU: Concern High About Both NSA and Corporate Surveillance Among Americans Polled

CNN: How your boss can keep you on a leash

Truthout: Totalitarian Paranoia in the Post-Orwellian Surveillance State