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

Nonfiction, Computers, Networking & Communications, Computer Security, Operating Systems, Application Software
Cover of the book Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World by Bruce Schneier, W. W. Norton & Company
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Bruce Schneier ISBN: 9780393244823
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Publication: March 2, 2015
Imprint: W. W. Norton & Company Language: English
Author: Bruce Schneier
ISBN: 9780393244823
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publication: March 2, 2015
Imprint: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English

“Bruce Schneier’s amazing book is the best overview of privacy and security ever written.”—Clay Shirky

“Bruce Schneier’s amazing book is the best overview of privacy and security ever written.”—Clay Shirky

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.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

“Bruce Schneier’s amazing book is the best overview of privacy and security ever written.”—Clay Shirky

“Bruce Schneier’s amazing book is the best overview of privacy and security ever written.”—Clay Shirky

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.

More books from W. W. Norton & Company

Cover of the book Attachment-Focused Parenting: Effective Strategies to Care for Children by Bruce Schneier
Cover of the book The King: Poems by Bruce Schneier
Cover of the book Cockroach: A Novel by Bruce Schneier
Cover of the book Better Than Well: American Medicine Meets the American Dream by Bruce Schneier
Cover of the book Pleasure Bound: Victorian Sex Rebels and the New Eroticism by Bruce Schneier
Cover of the book From Rage to Courage: Answers to Readers' Letters by Bruce Schneier
Cover of the book The Test Book by Bruce Schneier
Cover of the book The Violin: A Social History of the World's Most Versatile Instrument by Bruce Schneier
Cover of the book The Feeling Brain: The Biology and Psychology of Emotions by Bruce Schneier
Cover of the book Soul Machine: The Invention of the Modern Mind by Bruce Schneier
Cover of the book No Vulgar Hotel: The Desire and Pursuit of Venice by Bruce Schneier
Cover of the book The Sensational Past: How the Enlightenment Changed the Way We Use Our Senses by Bruce Schneier
Cover of the book A Stranger's Mirror: New and Selected Poems 1994-2014 by Bruce Schneier
Cover of the book Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law: Poems, 1954-1962 by Bruce Schneier
Cover of the book The Sweet Relief of Missing Children: A Novel by Bruce Schneier
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy