Privacy is Power, Carissa Veliz
Privacy is Power, Carissa Veliz
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Privacy is Power
Why and How You Should Take Back Control of Your Data

Author: Carissa Véliz

Narrator: Rachel Perry

Unabridged: 7 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 07/27/2021

Synopsis

Every minute of every day, our data is harvested and exploited . . . It is time to pull the plug on the surveillance economy.

Governments and hundreds of corporations are spying on you, and everyone you know. They're not just selling your data. They're selling the power to influence you and decide for you. Even when you've explicitly asked them not to.

Reclaiming privacy is the only way we can regain control of our lives and our societies. These governments and corporations have too much power, and their power stems from us—from our data. Privacy is as collective as it is personal, and it's time to take back control.

Privacy Is Power tells you how to do exactly that. It calls for the end of the data economy and proposes concrete measures to bring that end about, offering practical solutions, both for policymakers and ordinary citizens.

About Carissa Véliz

Carissa Veliz is a Research Fellow at the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, the Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities, and Christ Church at the University of Oxford. Veliz has published articles in media such as the Guardian, the New York Times, New Statesman, and the Independent. Her academic work has been published in The Harvard Business Review, Nature Electronics, Nature Energy, and The American Journal of Bioethics, among other journals. She is the editor of the Oxford Handbook of Digital Ethics.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Henry

I think everyone should read this, it’s very insightful about a topic most of us seem to choose to ignore. I can’t wait to annoy my friends by blabbing on about it for the next few weeks. The only issue I have with it is that it seems to make the same point repeatedly but just rephrased. This makes......more

Goodreads review by David

There are too many books on privacy, but Carissa Véliz's Privacy is Power renews and extends the arguments in a very tight, focused and direct condemnation of Big Tech. Her argument is not merely that Big Tech abuses its users, but that its power is unnatural, and must eventually be reversed. Privac......more

Goodreads review by 8stitches 9lives

Privacy is Power: Why and How You Should Take Back Control of Your Data is an urgent and timely book about the issue of privacy since the inception of the internet, how your data is being used by companies and how you can make all of your information safer and more secure online. Of course, collecti......more

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