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Name: Surveillance Valley
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Author: Yasha Levine

Yasha Levine’s *Surveillance Valley* traces the internet’s origins to a covert Pentagon counterinsurgency surveillance program aimed at victory in Vietnam. By deploying early computer networks, ARPA pioneered a system that would become the global internet. Levine demonstrates that surveillance has always been integral to this technology, evolving from government agencies to private firms such as Google, Facebook, and Amazon. The book explores how these companies serve both commercial interests and military‑intelligence needs, creating a military‑digital complex that extends into the privacy movements sparked by the Snowden revelations. Through extensive research and narrative clarity, Levine shows that the internet’s history is inseparable from state power and corporate surveillance.

First publish date: 2018

Genre: History/Modern History

Authors: Yasha Levine

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