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There is more information in the world than ever before - but who is in control? At the centre is the governments, corporations andpowerful individuals who have more knowledge about us, and more power, than at any other time in history. Circling them is a new generation of hackers, pro-democracy campaigners and internet activists who no longer accept that the Establishment should run the show.In her gripping, revelatory new book, award-winning journalist and campaigner Heather Brooke takes us inside the Information War, from the hackerspaces of Boston and Berlin to the UKâGé¼s journalism hub and IcelandâGé¼s free speech revolution; from the headquarters of Google and Facebook to Collateral Murder, Cablegate and the murky world of Julian Assange and Wikileaks.Along the way Brooke explores the most urgent questions of the digital where is the balance between freedom and security? In an online world, does privacy still exist? And will the internet empower individuals, or usher in a new age of censorship, surveillance and oppression? Praise for The Silent State âGé¼-£Passionate, eloquent and persuasiveâGé¼ Times Book of the Week âGé¼-£WonderfulâGé¼-ª Heather Brooke has changed British public cultureand earned an essential place in our national historyâGé¼ Peter OborneâGé¼-£***** If you care about our so-called democracy, you must readthis profoundly shocking bookâGé¼ Mail on Sunday