Data and Goliath the hidden battles to collect your data and control your world
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 yo...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
W.W. Norton & Company,
[2015]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of 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.
