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Filled with spies, hackers, arms dealers, and a few unsung heroes, written like a thriller and a reference, This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends is an astonishing feat of journalism. Based on years of reporting and hundreds of interviews, The New York Times reporter Nicole Perlroth lifts the curtain on a market in shadow, revealing the urgent threat faced by us all if we cannot bring the global cyber arms race to heel.
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[2023]
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"In our digital world, data is power, and information hoarders reign supreme. The practices of these digital pillagers are analogous to those of cartels--they use intimidation, aggression, and force to maintain control and power. Sarah Lamdan brings us into the unregulated underworld of the "data cartels," demonstrating how the entities mining, hoarding, commodifying, and selling our data and informational resources perpetuate social inequalities...
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[2017]
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We live more and more of our lives online; we rely on the internet as we work, correspond with friends and loved ones, and go through a multitude of mundane activities like paying bills, streaming videos, reading the news, and listening to music. Without thinking twice, we operate with the understanding that the data that traces these activities will not be abused now or in the future. There is an abstract idea of privacy that we invoke, and, concrete...
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[2014]
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"This is the official report that is helping shape the international debate about the unprecedented surveillance activities of the National Security Agency. Commissioned by President Obama following disclosures by former NSA contractor Edward J. Snowden, and written by a preeminent group of intelligence and legal experts, the report examines the extent of NSA programs and calls for dozens of urgent and practical reforms. The result is a blueprint...
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[2019]
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First edition.
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English
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"Mindf*ck goes deep inside Cambridge Analytica's "American operations," which were driven by Steve Bannon's vision to remake America and fueled by mysterious billionaire Robert Mercer's money, as it weaponized and wielded the massive store of data it had harvested on individuals--in excess of 87 million--to disunite the United States and set Americans against each other. Bannon had long sensed that deep within America's soul lurked an explosive tension....
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[2009]
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A sweeping story of the right to privacy as it sped along colonial postal routes, telegraph wires, and even today's fiber-optic cables, American Privacy traces the lineage of cultural norms and legal mandates that have swirled around the Fourth Amendment since its adoption. Legally, technologically, and historically grounded, Frederick Lane's book presents a vivid and penetrating exploration that, in the words of people's historian Howard Zinn, "challenges...
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[2022]
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First edition.
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"The essential road map for understanding-and defending-your right to privacy in the twenty-first century. Privacy is disappearing. From our sex lives to our workout routines, the details of our lives once relegated to pen and paper have joined the slipstream of new technology. As a MacArthur fellow and distinguished professor of law at the University of Virginia, acclaimed civil rights advocate Danielle Citron has spent decades working with lawmakers...
10) Surveillance
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[2020]
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Surveillance is the close observation of a person or a group of people. Governments and organizations surveil people. Surveillance may help find and protect people from threats. But it can also be used to target people. Surveillance explores issues related to surveillance and people's right to privacy.
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2013.
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In the last decade, technology has grown and changed to the point where many people don't have secrets anymore. It's all out there on the Web. Readers take an in-depth look at privacy online and discover why is it important to maintain their privacy, how to go about that, and what impact the law can have on the decisions they make online today and tomorrow.
12) Online privacy
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[2012]
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Discusses privacy issues in the digital age including privacy in social networks, in corporations, and in government.
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[2018]
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First edition.
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"Chertoff [posits] that our laws and policies surrounding the protection of personal information, written for an earlier time, need to be ... overhauled in the Internet era. On the one hand, the collection of data--more widespread by business than by government, and impossible to stop--should be facilitated as an ultimate protection for society. On the other, standards under which information can be inspected, analyzed, or used must be significantly...
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[2019]
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First edition.
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In this explosive memoir, Kaiser reveals the disturbing truth about the multi-billion-dollar data industry, revealing how companies are getting richer using our personal information and exposing how Cambridge Analytica exploited weaknesses in privacy laws to help elect Donald Trump, and how this could easily happen again in the 2020 presidential election.
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[2022]
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First edition.
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"A great resource for busy library professionals to keep up with the patron privacy crises and questions they frequently face. This book synthesizes librarian opinions, library policies, case studies, empirical research for library and information science and other fields, American Library Association publications, and privacy philosophy"--
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