Data and Goliath : the hidden battles to collect your data and control your world / Bruce Schneier.
2015
HM846 .S362 2015 (Mapit)
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Title
Data and Goliath : the hidden battles to collect your data and control your world / Bruce Schneier.
Author
Schneier, Bruce, 1963-
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780393244816 hardcover
0393244814 hardcover
0393244814 hardcover
Published
New York, N.Y. : W.W. Norton & Company, [2015]
Language
English
Language Note
Text in English.
Description
383 pages ; 25 cm
Call Number
HM846 .S362 2015
Dewey Decimal Classification
005.8
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-364) and index.
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Table of Contents
Data as a by-product of computing
Data as surveillance
Analyzing our data
The business of surveillance
Government surveillance and control
Consolidation of institutional control
Political liberty and justice
Commercial fairness and equality
Business competitiveness
Privacy
Security
Principles
Solutions for government
Solutions for corporations
Solutions for the rest of us
Social norms and the big data trade-off.
Data as surveillance
Analyzing our data
The business of surveillance
Government surveillance and control
Consolidation of institutional control
Political liberty and justice
Commercial fairness and equality
Business competitiveness
Privacy
Security
Principles
Solutions for government
Solutions for corporations
Solutions for the rest of us
Social norms and the big data trade-off.