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

by Bruce Schneier

Book Overview

Your cell phone provider tracks your location and knows who's with you. Your online and in-store purchasing patterns are recorded, and reveal if you're unemployed, sick, or pregnant. Your e-mails and texts expose your intimate and casual friends. Google knows what you're thinking because it saves your private searches. Facebook can determine your sexual orientation without you ever mentioning it.

The powers that surveil us do more than simply...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393244814
• ISBN13: 9780393244816
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.4" x 9.3"