Acknowledgments

While writing this book, I thought a lot about Caspar Bowden, who passed away in 2015 well before his business was completed. We will carry on, Caspar, and I hope we will make you proud.

I’m grateful to Fred von Lohmann for the idea that I should write this book, for his tolerance of the time and effort it took, for his rigorous proofreading, and for his steadfast love in the face of my preoccupation. Barbara van Schewick, the Director of our Center for Internet and Society, gave me great leeway to have time to write and was incredibly supportive and enthusiastic. I couldn’t ask for a more empowering boss. I’m grateful to Ryan Harbage, my agent, for encouraging me and guiding me through the process.

Editors Nan Weiner and Ruth Starkman guided me at various points of the project, helping me make the book more accessible and better organized.

I was ably assisted by Gabe Schlaback and Marta Belcher who helped with early research. Thank you to my footnoting assistants, Alec Pallin, Wesley Tiu, Taylor Goodman, and Alex Zaheer. Elliot Serbin was especially helpful with footnoting and with ensuring stylistic consistency throughout.

A number of friends and colleagues read the book and provided invaluable commentary and demands for clarifications. Thank you to readers Mark Seiden, Ethan Watters, Kim Magowan, Van Harvey, Hal Murray, Neil Richards, and Margaret Hu.

To my colleagues in the surveillance, civil liberties, and human rights communities – whistleblowers, reporters, lawyers, activists, government officials past and present: I wrote this book to bring your ideas to the general public in an effort to get more people to understand and care about surveillance. I hope you see your hard work and ideas fairly and eloquently reflected here.