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

from rivkat

This is a comprehensive look at the various challenges for human privacy and security in an age of ever-increasing corporate and government ability to surveil and influence us. Nothing is likely to surprise anyone who's been reading Wired, the EFF's blog, or similar sources for the past few years...

from jcbrunner

If you have followed the Snowden revelations and are aware of IT privacy issues, then you aren't really part of the target audience for this book which spends a good amount of its pages on recapitulating the events. Its intended recipients are people enrolled in some introduction course on inform...

from bkinetic

A fascinating account of the way in which corporations are invading our privacy for profit at the same time governments are doing so for poorly founded security concerns. Both groups tend to see privacy and prohibitions against unreasonable search, and seizure as outmoded and even dangerous value...

from John_T_Stewart

"Data and Goliath" by Bruce Schneier. This is a good overview of the internet and privacy. The internet of things is the next frontline on the loss of privacy and the increase in surveillance over us all. I didn't learn all that much that was new to me because I have been following this issue eve...

from MaureenRoy

This is your wake-up call about your lack of recorded data security and privacy. That's the consensus on this book (Data and Goliath, written by Bruce Schneier) from the noted writers Malcolm Gladwell, Seymour M. Hersh, Richard A. Clarke, and Steven Pinker. There was a lot even for me to learn (I...