Data and Goliath, Bruce Schneier
Data and Goliath, Bruce Schneier
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Data and Goliath
The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World

Author: Bruce Schneier

Narrator: Dan John Miller

Unabridged: 9 hr 27 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 04/03/2015


Synopsis

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.

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

Reviews

Goodreads review by Mario the lone bookwolf on April 01, 2018

Big Data helps in the indirect way of realizing dystopias. Please note that I put the original German text at the end of this review. Just if you might be interested. A book that is widely scattered and explains all aspects of the precarious situation to illustrate an increasingly threatening dilemma......more

Goodreads review by Atila on March 18, 2017

Schneier é especialista em segurança e criptografia e contribuiu com a análise das revelações do Snowden sobre como governos e empresas espionam nossos dados pessoais. O livro é uma análise bem detalhada – e mais extensa do que o necessário, na minha opinião – sobre como isso acontece. Ele passa por......more

Goodreads review by Beauregard on June 24, 2018

I love the topic. I love the details provided in this book. But, to tell a story you need more than a great topic and a bunch of facts. One needs a narrative and an attitude to tie the pieces together. This book lacked the story telling 'je ne sais quoi" (literal: "I don't know what", but figurative......more

Goodreads review by Kevin on June 02, 2019

Solid intro to the myths/realities of privacy/security in the Age of Information Technology, for the general public by an IT specialist: The Good: --In the modern world of complex abstractions (finance, world market, mass media, foreign policy, science & technology, etc.), there is a pressing need for......more

Goodreads review by Caren on March 24, 2015

Reading this book was deeply unsettling. After Edward Snowden, perhaps none of us is naive about how easily information about any of us can be found, but the author (whom the dust jacket bills as "one of the world's foremost security experts") takes the reader into the belly of the beast, as it were......more