Verax: The True History of Whistleblowers, Drone Warfare, and Mass Surveillance: A Graphic Novel

In this book, Verax recounts the sweeping graphic history of electronic surveillance from the War on Terror to the latest drone strike.

Journalist Pratap Chatterjee delves into mass surveillance, introducing its cast of characters: companies, users, government agencies, whistleblowers, journalists, and devices. He explains how governments track individuals and countries, from tracking Angry Birds players to deploying “Stingrays” for phone calls or weaponizing programs for drone killings. He chronicles the complicity of corporations like Apple, Verizon, and Google, and the daring of journalists and whistleblowers like Snowden and the NSA Four. Finally, he offers a prognosis for the future of mass surveillance and resistance.