In this explosive memoir, a political consultant and technology whistleblower reveals the disturbing truth about the multi-billion-dollar data industry, revealing to the public how companies are getting richer using our personal information and exposing how Cambridge Analytica exploited weaknesses in privacy laws to help elect Donald Trump.
At a time when America's faculties of taste and judgment-along with the sense of the sacred and shameful-have become utterly vacant, Rochelle Gurstein's The Repeal of Reticence delivers an important and troubling warning.
'Devastating and urgent, this book could not be more timely' Caroline Criado Perez, award-winning and bestselling author of Invisible WomenDanielle Citron takes the conversation about technology and privacy out of the boardrooms and op-eds to reach readers where we are - in our bathrooms and bedrooms; with our families and our lovers; in all the parts of our lives we assume are untouchable - and shows us that privacy, as we think we know it, is largely already gone.
An original deep history of the internet that tells the story of the centuries-old utopian dreams behind it-and explains why they have died todayMany think of the internet as an unprecedented and overwhelmingly positive achievement of modern human technology.
An original deep history of the internet that tells the story of the centuries-old utopian dreams behind it-and explains why they have died todayMany think of the internet as an unprecedented and overwhelmingly positive achievement of modern human technology.
An activist and an actor reflect on Edward Snowden and the surveillance state in this collection that "e;reads like a whistleblower's travel diary"e; (Disorient).
The Internet has become central to global economic activity, politics, and security, and the security environment has changed recently, as we face much more aggressive state actors in espionage.
AMERICAN DEMOCRACY IS AT RISKNo oneconservative or liberalshould be comfortable with a few Silicon Valleyoligarchs having a monopoly over the marketplace of ideas, and with it, democracy itself.
From QR codes to stay-at-home orders and mask mandates, the pandemic posed intriguing questions about the nature of political power in a time that is increasingly being classified as marked by democratic erosion, backsliding, or populism, Through a multi-methodological analysis of datasets covering different characteristics of pandemic responses in 54 liberal democratic states, Authoritarian Liberal Surveillance and the COVID-19 Pandemic draws attention to a different set of processes and dynamics.
FROM THE BBC REITH LECTURER 2021'The most important book I have read in quite some time' Daniel Kahneman; 'A must-read' Max Tegmark; 'The book we've all been waiting for' Sam HarrisHumans dream of super-intelligent machines.
Intelligence agencies provide critical information to national security and foreign policy decision makers, but spying also poses inherent dilemmas for liberty, privacy, human rights, and diplomacy.
As the fortification of Europes borders and its hostile immigration terrain has taken shape, so too have the biometric and digital surveillance industries.
From QR codes to stay-at-home orders and mask mandates, the pandemic posed intriguing questions about the nature of political power in a time that is increasingly being classified as marked by democratic erosion, backsliding, or populism, Through a multi-methodological analysis of datasets covering different characteristics of pandemic responses in 54 liberal democratic states, Authoritarian Liberal Surveillance and the COVID-19 Pandemic draws attention to a different set of processes and dynamics.
A FINANCIAL TIMES AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 Johnson s stories bring this history chillingly alive Christina Patterson, Sunday Times'An indelible feat of reporting and an urgent read .
One of Publishers Weekly's Top 10 Business & Economics Books: A "e;fascinating"e; inside look at who's watching you, what they know, and why it matters (Kirkus Reviews).
Policing Sex in the Sunflower State: The Story of the Kansas State Industrial Farm for Women is the history of how, over a span of two decades, the state of Kansas detained over 5,000 women for no other crime than having a venereal disease.
The Internet has become central to global economic activity, politics, and security, and the security environment has changed recently, as we face much more aggressive state actors in espionage.
The uncompromising Nick Cohen exposes the reality behind the freedoms we enjoy in the book that won Polemic of the Year at the 2013 Political Book Awards.
Truth, Lies & Reason - About the Power of ManipulationWe are all exposed to facts and emotions and the line between truth and deception is not always clearly distinguishable.
On 5 June 2013, the Guardian began publishing a series of documents leaked by NSA contractor Edward Snowden, revealing the extent of internet surveillance undertaken by government and intelligence agencies.