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Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World Reprint Edition
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“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.
- ISBN-10039335217X
- ISBN-13978-0393352177
- EditionReprint
- PublisherW. W. Norton & Company
- Publication dateFebruary 8, 2016
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions5.5 x 1.2 x 8.3 inches
- Print length448 pages
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― Jonathan A. Knee, New York Times
"Lucid and compelling."
― Emily Parker, Washington Post
"A pithy, pointed, and highly readable explanation of what we know in the wake of the Snowden revelations, with practical steps that ordinary people can take if they want to do something about the threats to privacy and liberty posed not only by the government but by the Big Data industry."
― Neal Stephenson, author of Reamde
"Lucid and fast-paced…. Schneier describes with dismay the erosion of privacy, then lays out a strategy for turning the tide."
― Hiawatha Bray, Boston Globe
"[T]hought-provoking, absorbing, and comprehensive."
― Gil Press, Forbes
"The public conversation about surveillance in the digital age would be a good deal more intelligent if we all read Bruce Schneier first."
― Malcolm Gladwell
"A hugely insightful and important book about how big data and its cousin, mass surveillance, affect our lives, and what to do about it. . . . Vivid, accessible, and compelling."
― Jack Goldsmith, former head of the Office of Legal Counsel of the Department of Justice under George W. Bush
"This important book does more than detail the threat; it tells the average low-tech citizen what steps he or she can take to limit surveillance and thus fight those who are seeking to strip privacy from all of us."
― Seymour M. Hersh, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist
"Schneier exposes the many and surprising ways governments and corporations monitor all of us, providing a must-read User’s Guide to Life in the Data Age. His recommendations for change should be part of a much-needed public debate."
― Richard A. Clarke, former chief counterterrorism adviser on the National Security Council under Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, and author of Cyber War
"As it becomes increasingly clear that surveillance has surpassed anything that Orwell imagined, we need a guide to how and why we’re being snooped and what we can do about it. Bruce Schneier is that guide."
― Steven Levy, editor-in-chief of Backchannel and author of Crypto and Hackers
"A judicious and incisive analysis of one of the most pressing new issues of our time, written by a true expert."
― Steven Pinker, Johnstone Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, and author of The Better Angels of Our Nature
"Lucid, sophisticated. . . . Finely constructed, free of cant, and practical in its conclusions."
― Jacob Silverman, Los Angeles Times
"Bruce Schneier's new book will empower people to join the conversation in the courts and elsewhere about how to think seriously and honestly about our current digital surveillance state and more importantly, how to build a digital society run by the consent of the governed."
― Cindy Cohn, Legal Director for the Electronic Frontier Foundation
"Paints a picture of the big-data revolution that is dark, but compelling; one in which the conveniences of our digitized world have devalued privacy."
― Charles Seife, Nature
"Anyone interested in security, liberty, privacy, and justice in this cyber age must read this book."
― Joseph S. Nye Jr., Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor and author of The Future of Power
"The indispensable guide to understanding the most important current threat to freedom in democratic market societies."
― Yochai Benkler, Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard Law School and author of The Wealth of Networks
"Should be on everyone's must read list."
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- Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company; Reprint edition (February 8, 2016)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 448 pages
- ISBN-10 : 039335217X
- ISBN-13 : 978-0393352177
- Item Weight : 2.31 pounds
- Dimensions : 5.5 x 1.2 x 8.3 inches
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Bruce Schneier is an internationally renowned security technologist, called a "security guru" by The Economist. He is the author of 12 books -- including "Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World" -- as well as hundreds of articles, essays, and academic papers. His influential newsletter "Crypto-Gram" and blog "Schneier on Security" are read by over 250,000 people. Schneier is a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, a program fellow at the New America Foundation's Open Technology Institute, a board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and an Advisory Board member of the Electronic Privacy Information Center. He is also the Chief Technology Officer of Resilient Systems, Inc.
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The book is divided into three parts. The first one describes our world, where every appliance is a computer, everyone is connected, there’s an app for everything - all resulting in enormous amounts of data, pumped each second through the internet. New business models emerged, monetizing user data (e.g. via targeted ads) in exchange for free services. We have traded privacy for convenience. All that information being gathered - unprecedented in history - prompted some governments to deploy mass surveillance programs, theoretically in order to detect terrorist activity. Although Snowden’s whistleblowing relates mainly to NSA and UK’s GCHQ, there are strong clues suggesting that other world powers do the same.
In second part, the author writes about negative effects of mass surveillance - notably the stifling of free speech - and what risks come from the abuse of power from secret agencies. Moreover, it is shown how data mining techniques are ineffective at finding terrorists, on the other hand being helpful in intimidating and controlling whole societies. Author focuses on privacy as an inherent human right, nowadays threatened by the fact that human interactions are losing their historically ephemeral nature; internet forgets nothing.
As Bruce Schneier is deeply convinced that all those changes are mostly harmful - to personal freedoms, transparency of government and police work, democratic procedures, justice etc. - the book, in its last part, concludes with author’s proposals on how to avoid more damage. Privacy and security can coexist; mass surveillance should be replaced with targeted one, allowed by warrant, along police procedures - not espionage (secret) ones. Companies should not yield to NSA claims to insert backdoors - so no bad guys can exploit them. Whichever company collects user data, should do so with transparent rules on how it is used. It is not yet too late to save privacy from waning - if only societies could see through free services and govt-instilled fear of terror, what is really at stake.
Some derogate this title for being biased against US federal agents, sworn to protect the country from terrorist threats and doing whatever it takes to get the job done. I would like to point out that the author does not negate the patriotic intentions of federal personnel; his criticism pertains to how whole agencies are organised (amassed power with little oversight) and how their recently-acquired mass-surveillance tools are not cut out for the job of finding terrorists. Those points are backed by numerous cited facts. On the other hand, it is not hidden that this whole book is an expression of Bruce Schneier’s beliefs; if he writes that privacy “is something we ought to have (...) because it is moral” - he does not have to elaborate too much on why he thinks that, does he? So, yes, the book might be called “biased” - as it supports the notion that some sacrifices, in the name of security, just can not be made. Personal freedoms are the foundation of western societies and must not be given away. I fully agree with Bruce - and suspect that a majority of US and EU inhabitants would too, have they pondered on what actually happened in the surveillance field in last two decades. This book really helps you in realising that.
All in all, I seriously doubt that anyone could write such a convincing and well substantiated book which would oppose “Data and Goliath” message - but, perversely, I would love to see one ;) A must read. For literally each of us.
But the author does more than just alert the reader to the dangers to our privacy and freedom but makes practical suggestions about positive actions we can take to address the issues he raises. In particular, we need to own our data, especially our own medical data. I highly recommend this book to anyone concerned about their privacy and freedom and that of their families.
Chapter 1-7: everything you do produces data that has no lifespan
Chapter 8-end: there is a lot of money in mining your data patterns for a lot of folks
It's an ok game read. Personally, I liked Glichs; The Information better as a general IT read.
I am a supporter of the NSA. The technology at their disposal is amazing and it is only getting better. The potential to actively protect free societies is tremendous. Yet we need Mr. Schneier and others to explain how this power can be used and abused. One of my favorite sections was about how you can protect your personal privacy. Could that information be used by potential criminals? Perhaps for a time, but U.S. law enforcement has displayed a doggedness and willingness that compares well with other countries.
I am better educated and more enlightened after reading this book, and that is all I can ask for.
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Bruce Schneier est peut-être l'un des meilleurs penseurs de notre temps. Il est malheureusement encore trop peu connu en France.
This book lays it out in details for both the expert and the amateur. A thoroughly interesting sometimes chilling read and very hard to put down