Data and Goliath the hidden battles to collect your data and control your world
Schneier, Bruce
Data and Goliath the hidden battles to collect your data and control your world - New York W W Norton 2015
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-406) and index.
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.
Your cell phone provider knows your location ;vendors record your purchasing patterns; your e-mails, texts, and social network activity are stored indefinitely; and all of this information is used by corporations and governments to manipulate, discriminate, and censor your experiences. The result is a mass surveillance society of our own making. Security expert Bruce Schneier offers another path, showing us exactly what we can do to reform government surveillance programs, shake up surveillance-based business models, and protect our individual privacy. From back cover.
9780393352177
Electronic surveillance--Social aspects.
Information technology--Social aspects.
Computer security.
Privacy, Right of.
Social control.
HM846 / .S362 2016
Data and Goliath the hidden battles to collect your data and control your world - New York W W Norton 2015
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-406) and index.
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.
Your cell phone provider knows your location ;vendors record your purchasing patterns; your e-mails, texts, and social network activity are stored indefinitely; and all of this information is used by corporations and governments to manipulate, discriminate, and censor your experiences. The result is a mass surveillance society of our own making. Security expert Bruce Schneier offers another path, showing us exactly what we can do to reform government surveillance programs, shake up surveillance-based business models, and protect our individual privacy. From back cover.
9780393352177
Electronic surveillance--Social aspects.
Information technology--Social aspects.
Computer security.
Privacy, Right of.
Social control.
HM846 / .S362 2016