Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World

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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, 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? In Data and Goliath, security expert Bruce Schneier offers another path, one that values both security and privacy. He brings his bestseller up-to-date with a new preface covering the latest developments, and then shows us exactly what we can do to reform government surveillance programs, shake up surveillance-based business models, and protect our individual privacy. You'll never look at your phone, your computer, your credit cards, or even your car in the same way again.

Language: English

Pages: 427

Format: Paperback

Publisher: W. W. Norton Company

Release: February 08, 2016

ISBN: 039335217X

ISBN 13: 9780393352177

Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World

Bruce Schneier

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Language: English

Pages: 427

Format: Paperback

Publisher: W. W. Norton Company

Release: February 08, 2016

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ISBN 13: 9780393352177

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