Data and Goliath : the hidden battles to collect your data and control your world

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Label

Data and Goliath : the hidden battles to collect your data and control your world

Title remainder

the hidden battles to collect your data and control your world

Statement of responsibility

Bruce Schneier

Creator

• Schneier, Bruce, 1963-

Subject

• Computer security
• Computer security
• Dataskydd
• Datenerfassung
• Electronic surveillance
• Electronic surveillance -- Social aspects
• Electronic surveillance -- Social aspects
• Electronic surveillance -- Social aspects
• Electronic surveillance. -- Social aspects
• Elektronische Überwachung
• Elektronisk övervakning -- sociala aspekter
• Computer security
• Information technology -- Social aspects
• Information technology -- Social aspects
• Information technology -- Social aspects
• Informationsteknik -- sociala aspekter
• Personenbezogene Daten
• Personlig integritet
• Privacy, Right of
• Privacy, Right of
• Right of privacy
• Social control
• Social control
• Information technology -- Ethical aspects

Language

eng

Summary

"Your cell phone provider tracks your location and knows who's with you. Your online and in-store purchasing patterns are recorded, and reveal if you're unemployed, sick, or pregnant. Your e-mails and texts expose your intimate and casual friends. Google knows what you're thinking because it saves your private searches. Facebook can determine your sexual orientation without you ever mentioning it. The powers that surveil us do more than simply store this information. Corporations use surveillance to manipulate not only the news articles and advertisements we each see, but also the prices we're offered. Governments use surveillance to discriminate, censor, and chill free speech, and put people in danger worldwide. And both sides share this information with each other or, even worse, lose it to cybercriminals in huge data breaches. Much of this is voluntary: we cooperate with corporate surveillance because it promises us convenience, and we submit to government surveillance because it promises us protection. The result is a mass surveillance society of our own making. But have we given up more than we've gained? Security expert Bruce Schneier offers another path, one that values both security and privacy. He shows us what we can do to reform our government surveillance programs and shake up surveillance-based business models, while also providing tips for you to protect your privacy every day."--Jacket

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

005.8

Index

index present

Language note

Text in English

LC call number

HM846

LC item number

.S362 2015

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography