The Invisible Cyber Bully: What it's like to be watched 24/7

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Revienne, a washed-up print journo forced by Web 2.0 market trends to switch careers, ended up working for a renowned shrink with VIP clients. Realizing her artist's soul was slowly dying from sacrificing her craft to pay the bills, she wrote a novel about her experiences in a member country of the “Vortex of Evil.”

After her book was published, she got an invitation from the Labor Ministry to participate in an "employment survey," which permitted the Feds to place her under surveillance for six months—maybe indefinitely. She discovered she was the only one on her street who got the invite… and such a survey didn't exist!

When she repeatedly dodged the surveyors, weird things started to happen. Strangers in Superman T-shirts followed her around. The family cats disappeared…. one by one. Are they spooking her into compliance? Why don't they just arrest her for civil disobedience? Was her book that awful? Did it have something to do with her access to the mental health and addiction records of the country’s leaders? Or is something more sinister lurking in the background?

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About the author

Expat Scribe

​​​​​​​Expat Scribe is a Filipino-Canadian journalist raised in Iran. After many years with the English-speaking press corps in the Middle East, she served as a medical assistant to a prominent Canadian-American psychiatrist. She penned the psychological techno-thriller, The Invisible Cyber Bully: What it's like to be watched 24/7, with contributions from her Iranian-born, Arabic-speaking, British-educated brother. As a senior graphic designer with a multinational ad agency, he and his team won a prestigious award in France. He died before seeing this book published. This publication is, in part, post-humous.

The siblings’ father was a planner and estimator for the US Air Force and Navy. He also worked in Arab and Iranian commercial aviation. Their Farsi-speaking mother was a silent advocate for women's rights in Tehran. Their family survived the 1979 Iranian revolution and the Iran-Iraq war. Expat Scribe's parents sent her to Switzerland to prevent her from covering the Gulf War from a safer vantage point in the UAE, but she returned in the middle of it.

This background places the siblings in a unique position as both insiders and outsiders. Having grown up in one of the most enigmatic but misunderstood regions of the world, they developed a unique perspective on 21st-century blanket surveillance and cyber bullying by the authorities. Surprisingly, the entities they write about are not from totalitarian regimes but democratic societies.

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