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"Ten Americans have been carefully selected to Beta test a ground-breaking piece of spyware. FUSION can track anyone on earth. But does it work? For one contestant, an unassuming Boston librarian named Kaitlyn Day, the stakes are far higher than money, and her reasons for entering the test more personal than anyone imagines. When the timer hits zero, there will only be one winner"--
2) Masked prey
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"Lucas Davenport investigates a vitriolic blog that seems to be targeting the children of U.S. politicians in the latest thriller by #1 New York Times-bestselling author John Sandford. The daughter of a U.S. Senator is monitoring her social media presence when she finds a picture of herself on a strange blog. And there are other pictures . . . of the children of other influential Washington politicians, walking or standing outside their schools, each...
3) Poster girl
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"What's right is right. Sonya Kantor knows this slogan--she lived by it for most of her life. For decades, everyone in the Seattle-Portland megalopolis lived under it, as well as constant surveillance in the form of the Insight, an ocular implant that tracked every word and every action, rewarding or punishing by a rigid moral code set forth by the Delegation. Then there was a revolution. The Delegation fell. Its most valuable members were locked...
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"In The Measure of a Man, Vincent Lindon ... gives his finest performance to date as unemployed everyman Thierry, who must submit to a series of quietly humiliating ordeals in his search for work. Futile retraining courses that lead to dead ends, interviews via Skype, a workshop critique of his self-presentation by fellow jobseekers; all are mechanisms that seek to break him down and strip him of identity and self respect. In his award-winning performance,...
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Written by the world's leading experts on finding people and helping people avoid being found, How to Disappear covers everything from tools for disappearing to discovering and eliminating the nearly invisible tracks and clues we tend to leave wherever we go. Learn the three keys to disappearing, all about your electronic footprints, the dangers and opportunities of social networking sites, and how to disappear from a stalker.Frank Ahearn and Eileen...
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Terraform hones the predictive capacity of science fiction and seeks new, vivid, and visceral ways to depict the future we're hurtling toward, translating the decay and anxiety that surround us into something else, something unexpected, something that burns like a beacon and upends the conventional ideas of where we'll end up next. Section by section--Watch/Worlds/Burn--the book takes on surveillance, artificial intelligence, and climate collapse....
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Have you ever thought you were being followed or watched? Have you ever needed to follow or observe someone and not be seen? In the world of espionage, surveillance and surveillance detection are a way of life. It is the job of every CIA operations officer to make sure he or she is not under surveillance--that is, being followed to the commission of an "operational act." It is also the job of every CIA operations officer to surveil his own targets,...
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Adam, a young radio ham, is forced to save his girlfriend Eve from official harassment by signing a 'contract with the devil' becoming a secret police agent wiretapping people to obtain compromising materials to be used against them. However, he soon finds out that he is under surveillance as well. Combined with a dark secret from his military days, their life could be turned upside down at any moment.
9) Poster girl
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Todos conocen a Sonya Kantor. Su imagen fue usada en un cartel como propaganda por parte de la Delegación, un gobierno que controló durante décadas a la población a través de un implante ocular que premiaba o castigaba cada acción. Sin embargo, se produjo un levantamiento y todos sus miembros y simpatizantes fueron llevados a la Abertura, una prisión en la que cumplen cadena perpetua. Ahora, tras diez años encerrada, un viejo conocido le ofrece...