Data and Goliath

Bruce Schneier reveals the full extent of surveillance, censorship and propaganda in society today, examining the risks of cybercrime, cyberterrorism and cyberwar. He shares technological, legal and social solutions that can help shape a more equal, private and secure world. This is a book everyone with an Internet connectionor bank account or smart device or car, for that matterneeds to read.

Klappentext Looks at the sometimes shocking ways in which corporations and governments track and control us, and the ways we can fight back. Zusammenfassung A shocking look at the ways governments and organisations track and control us and the ways we can fight back.

Auteur

Bruce Schneier is a renowned security technologist who has written over one dozen books, including the New York Times bestseller Data and Goliath and Click Here to Kill Everybody. He teaches at the Harvard Kennedy School and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Texte du rabat

Data is everywhere. We create it every time we go online, turn our phone on (or off) or pay with a credit card. This data is stored, studied, bought and sold by companies and governments for surveillance and for control. "Foremost security expert" (Wired) Bruce Schneier shows how this data has led to a double-edged Internet-a Web that gives power to the people but is abused by the institutions on which those people depend.

In Data and Goliath, Schneier reveals the full extent of surveillance, censorship and propaganda in society today, examining the risks of cybercrime, cyberterrorism and cyberwar. He shares technological, legal and social solutions that can help shape a more equal, private and secure world.

Résumé
A shocking look at the ways governments and organisations track and control us and the ways we can fight back.