Dragnet nation : a quest for privacy, security, and freedom in a world of relentless surveillance
Title:
Dragnet nation : a quest for privacy, security, and freedom in a world of relentless surveillance
Author:
Angwin, Julia.
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Times Books, Henry Holt and Company, [2014]
Physical Description:
289 pages ; 25 cm
Summary:
Online ads from websites you've visited... smartphones and cars transmitting your location... data-gathering surveillance operations across the Internet and on your phone lines. You are being watched.... Angwin offers a revelatory and unsettling look at how the government, private companies, and even criminals use technology to indiscriminately sweep up vast amounts of our personal data. She argues that the greatest long-term danger is that we start to internalize the surveillance and censor our words and thoughts, until we lose our freedom. Appalled at such a prospect, Angwin conducts a series of experiments to try to protect herself.
An investigative journalist offers a revealing look at how the government, private companies, and criminals use technology to indiscriminately sweep up vast amounts of our personal data, and discusses results from a number of experiments she conducted totry and protect herself.
Language:
English
Contents:
Hacked -- A short history of tracking -- State of surveillance -- Freedom of association -- Threat models -- The audit -- The first line of defense -- Leaving Google -- Introducing Ida -- Pocket litter -- Opting out -- The hall of mirrors -- Lonely codes -- Fighting fear -- The unfairness doctrine.
ISBN:
9780805098075
Format :
Book
