Snitch Culture: How Citizens are Turned into the Eyes and Ears of the State

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In this alarming expose investigative journalist Jim Redden examines how snooping has become so much a part of American culture that it is practically a family value encouraged on billboards television and even in classrooms. From employees hired to spy on their coworkers to doctors forced to disclose medical information the U.S. has developed a chilling network for monitoring its citizens. Worst of all the information gathered - and widely disseminated - is often unreliable solicited from paid and anonymous informants. "No one is safe in the Snitch Culture. Jim Redden has written a scary fascinating and important examination of the pervasive use and abuse of informants and snitches in the United States." - Katherine Dunn author of Geek Love