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.
"No Place to Hide might just do for privacy protection what Rachel
Carson's Silent Spring did for environmental protection.
[O'Harrow's] is the work of a careful, thorough, enterprising
reporter."
-- William Safire, The New York Times Book Review
"Mr. O'Harrow provides in these pages an authoritative and vivid
account of the emergence of a 'security-industrial complex' and the
far-reaching consequences for ordinary Americans...an alarming
vision of the future uncannily reminiscent of the world imagined by
Orwell in 1984."
-- Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
"Today, we are constantly tagged, monitored, studied, sorted and
tracked by a vast array of institutions and organizations --
private and public. As Robert O'Harrow, Jr., details in No Place to
Hide, it is worse than we could ever have imagined. In this
revealing book, O'Harrow makes clear that Americans need to think
seriously about these issues now -- before it is too late for us to
decide that we care."
-- The Washington Post
Kirkus Reviews From Starbucks to the subway to the sidewalk, you
are being watched....O'Harrow voices a clear concern over the
ethics of such snooping...persuasively delineating how that
information is abused and how unavoidable mistakes have profound
consequences. A skillful chart of a surveillance society out of
control.
"No Place to Hide might just do for privacy protection what
Rachel Carson's Silent Spring did for environmental
protection. [O'Harrow's] is the work of a careful, thorough,
enterprising reporter."
-- William Safire, The New York Times Book Review
"Mr. O'Harrow provides in these pages an authoritative and vivid
account of the emergence of a 'security-industrial complex' and the
far-reaching consequences for ordinary Americans...an alarming
vision of the future uncannily reminiscent of the world imagined by
Orwell in 1984."
-- Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
"Today, we are constantly tagged, monitored, studied, sorted and
tracked by a vast array of institutions and organizations --
private and public. As Robert O'Harrow, Jr., details in No Place
to Hide, it is worse than we could ever have imagined. In this
revealing book, O'Harrow makes clear that Americans need to think
seriously about these issues now -- before it is too late for us to
decide that we care."
-- The Washington Post
Kirkus Reviews From Starbucks to the subway to the sidewalk,
you are being watched....O'Harrow voices a clear concern over the
ethics of such snooping...persuasively delineating how that
information is abused and how unavoidable mistakes have profound
consequences. A skillful chart of a surveillance society out of
control.
Once upon a time, people were worried about the futuristic world of 1984. According to O'Harrow's thought-provoking research, "Big Brother" is very evident in 2004. O'Harrow, a Pulitzer Prize finalist at the Washington Post, clearly articulates how American citizens are increasingly exposed to private and governmental forms of surveillance. Tracking the moves of private citizens is accomplished through a variety of seemingly routine data, such as detailed phone records, credit card purchases, cars with tracking systems, ATM purchases, automobiles with E-Z Pass, magnetic strip identification cards, and so on. Advanced technology surveillance has both positive and negative consequences. On the one hand, many suspected terrorists have been detained, and law enforcement agencies are sharing information with one another. But increased surveillance imposes conformity, threatens civil liberties and individual freedoms, and introduces the uneasy feeling of constantly being watched. This timely, informative, and wonderfully written book on the subject is highly recommended for all libraries.-Tim Delaney, SUNY at Oswego Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.
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