No Place to Hide

In No Place to Hide, award-winning Washington Post reporter Robert O'Harrow, Jr., pulls back the curtain on an unsettling trend: the emergence of a data-driven surveillance society intent on giving us the conveniences and services we crave, like cell phones, discount cards, and electronic toll passes, while watching us more closely than ever before. He shows that since the September 11, 2001, terror attacks, the information industry giants have been enlisted as private intelligence services for homeland security. And at a time when companies routinely collect billions of details about nearly every American adult, No Place to Hide shines a bright light on the sorry state of information security, revealing how people can lose control of their privacy and identities at any moment.

Now with a new afterword that details the latest security breaches and the government's failing efforts to stop them, O'Harrow shows us that, in this new world of high-tech domestic intelligence, there is literally no place to hide.

As O'Harrow writes, This book is all about you and your personal information -- and the story isn't pretty.

Author: Robert O'Harrow Jr.
Publisher: Free Press
Published: 01/01/2006
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780743287050

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 03/12/2006 pg. 32
Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2007 pg. 147

About the Author
Robert O'Harrow Jr. is an award-winning reporter on the investigative unit at The Washington Post. O'Harrow is the author of No Place to Hide, Zero Day: The Threat in Cyberspace, and The Quartermaster, a biography of Montgomery C. Meigs. He was a contributor to the 2016 biography, Trump Revealed: An American Journey of Ambition, Ego, Money, and Power. He lives with his wife and son in Arlington, Virginia.