Data and Goliath : the Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World /
You are under surveillance right now... your cell phone provider tracks your location, your online and in-store purchasing patterns are recorded, Facebook can determine your sexual orientation without you ever mentioning it. Corporations use surveillance to manipulate the prices we're offered;...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | Text in 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.