Recensione del libro di Brian Hochman, "THE LISTENERS -
A History of WIRETAPPING in the UNITED STATES", Harvard University
Press, marzo 2022,
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674249288.
Qui una intervista del 2018, quando Hochman stava lavorando al libro:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/brief-history-surveillance-america-180968399/
Molto interessante!
jc
Andrew Lanham/April 21, 2022
*The Making of the Surveillance State*
/The public widely opposed wiretapping until the 1970s. What changed?/
In 1911, a self-promoting private detective named William Burns made
national headlines. He had broken open a major political corruption
case, using a powerful new technology: an electronic bug. A business
group had hired him to investigate the Ohio state legislature. So he had
two of his agents plant a dictograph—a telephonic device invented in
1905 as an office intercom—under a couch at a hotel in Cincinnati.
Another agent then posed as a businessman, invited dozens of legislators
to the hotel, and offered them bribes. As lawmakers agreed to the deals,
the dictograph carried their conversation to the room next door, where a
stenographer wrote it all down. It led to multiple criminal convictions.
And Burns became a celebrity: Bars started serving “dictograph
cocktails” in his honor, while Burns produced a play about his own
exploits and even starred as himself in a silent film. The age of
electronic listening had arrived.
[...]
continua qui:
https://newrepublic.com/article/166145/surveillance-state-listeners-wiretapping-book-review
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