Includes bibliographical references and index.

The power imperative -- The privacy tradeoff -- The new blacklist -- Purging the heretics -- The need to win -- What the government knows -- The encyclopedia of faces -- Securing data at the speed of government -- The right to be wrong -- The social engineering of children -- Gamechangers on the horizon.

"An examination of how un-elected activists use economic pressures to target their political opponents"-- Provided by publisher.