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Información de la obraDragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security, and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance por Julia Angwin
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Prateleira 8 Livro 43 Scary tale this book tells. In the end, Angwin basically gives up on completely securing her privacy because she values the online connections she has. Her suggestions for improving personal privacy in the face of massive personal data collection are worth reading. And, her path to these conclusions makes for some very interesting, and infuriating, reading. Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing. I feel bad about giving such a low rating, compared to all the other extensive and glowing reviews already posted. The reason is not the content of the book. It seems comprehensive and useful. However, I couldn't read far into the book because of the poor writing. There were many sentences with what I call "different" traps. Such as "people create their passwords different ways at different times for different web sites." (That's not a quote.) Such constructions leave me discouraged. I've wasted those seconds reading a sentence that tells me nothing at all. There were other examples of poor writing. I was surprised that a respected journalist would write this way. The book could have been so much better with an editor. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Online ads from websites you've visited ... smartphones and cars transmitting your location ... data-gathering surveillance operations across the Internet and on your phone lines. You are being watched ... Angwin offers a revelatory and unsettling look at how the government, private companies, and even criminals use technology to indiscriminately sweep up vast amounts of our personal data. She argues that the greatest long-term danger is that we start to internalize the surveillance and censor our words and thoughts, until we lose our freedom. Appalled at such a prospect, Angwin conducts a series of experiments to try to protect herself.
"We see online ads from websites we've visited, long after we've moved on to other interests. Our smartphones and cars transmit our location, enabling us to know what's in the neighborhood but also enabling others to track us. And the federal government, we recently learned, has been conducting a massive data-gathering surveillance operation across the Internet and on our phone lines. In Dragnet Nation, award-winning investigative journalist Julia Angwin reports from the front lines of America's surveillance economy, offering a revelatory and unsettling look at how the government, private companies, and even criminals use technology to indiscriminately sweep up vast amounts of our personal data. In a world where we can be watched in our own homes, where we can no longer keep secrets, and where we can be impersonated, financially manipulated, or even placed in a police lineup, Angwin argues that the greatest long-term danger is that we start to internalize the surveillance and censor our words and thoughts, until we lose the very freedom that makes us unique individuals. Appalled at such a prospect, Angwin conducts a series of experiments to try to protect herself, ranging from quitting Google to carrying a "burner" phone, showing how difficult it is for an average citizen to resist the dragnets' reach. Her book is a cautionary tale for all of us, with profound implications for our values, our society, and our very selves."--Publisher information. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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