| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
383 pages ; 25 cm |
| Language |
Text in English. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [243]-364) and index. |
| Summary |
Your cell phone provider tracks your location and knows who is 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. |
| Contents |
The world we're creating. -- 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 -- What's at stake. -- Political liberty and justice -- Commercial fairness and equality -- Business competitiveness -- Privacy -- Security -- What to do about it. -- Principles -- Solutions for government -- Solutions for corporations -- Solutions for the rest of us -- Social norms and the big data trade-off. |
| Subject |
Electronic surveillance -- Social aspects.
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Information technology -- Social aspects.
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Computer security.
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Privacy, Right of.
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Social control.
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Big data.
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| ISBN |
9780393244816 (hardcover) |
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0393244814 (hardcover) |
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