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Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Control Your Data and Control Your World

By: Schneier, Bruce.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: New York, NY, Norton, 2015Description: 383 pages.ISBN: 978-0-393-24481-6.Subject(s): government | surveillance | governmental control | censorship | propagandaOnline resources: Author's website | Publisher's website Summary: A shocking look at the ways governments and organisations track and control us and the ways we can fight back. Data is everywhere. We create it every time we go online, turn our phone on (or off) or pay with a credit card. This data is stored, studied, bought and sold by companies and governments for surveillance and for control. "Foremost security expert" (Wired) Bruce Schneier shows how this data has led to a double-edged Internet—a Web that gives power to the people but is abused by the institutions on which those people depend. In Data and Goliath, Schneier reveals the full extent of surveillance, censorship and propaganda in society today, examining the risks of cybercrime, cyberterrorism and cyberwar. He shares technological, legal and social solutions that can help shape a more equal, private and secure world.
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A shocking look at the ways governments and organisations track and control us and the ways we can fight back.

Data is everywhere. We create it every time we go online, turn our phone on (or off) or pay with a credit card. This data is stored, studied, bought and sold by companies and governments for surveillance and for control. "Foremost security expert" (Wired) Bruce Schneier shows how this data has led to a double-edged Internet—a Web that gives power to the people but is abused by the institutions on which those people depend.

In Data and Goliath, Schneier reveals the full extent of surveillance, censorship and propaganda in society today, examining the risks of cybercrime, cyberterrorism and cyberwar. He shares technological, legal and social solutions that can help shape a more equal, private and secure world.

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