Data and Goliath : the hidden battles to collect your data and control your world

Schneier, Bruce 1963- (author.).

Summary: Reveals the ways in which corporations and governments track and monitor everyday activities, profiling the technological, legal, and social solutions available for enabling better privacy and avoiding cybercrime.

Record details

ISBN: 9780393244816
Physical Description: print
regular print
383 pages ; 24 cm
Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2015.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

The world we're creating. Data as a by-product of computing ; Data as surveillance ; Analyzing our data ; The business of surveillance ; Government surveillance and control ; Consolidation of institutional control -- What's at stake. Political liberty and justice ; Commercial fairness and equality ; Business competitiveness ; Privacy ; Security -- What to do about it. Principles ; Solutions for government ; Solutions for corporations ; Solutions for the rest of us ; Social norms and the big data trade-off.