Obfuscation: A User's Guide for Privacy and Protest

by Finn Brunton and Helen Nissenbaum

Book Overview

How we can evade, protest, and sabotage today's pervasive digital surveillance by deploying more data, not less--and why we should.

With Obfuscation, Finn Brunton and Helen Nissenbaum mean to start a revolution. They are calling us not to the barricades but to our computers, offering us ways to fight today's pervasive digital surveillance--the collection of our data by governments, corporations, advertisers, and hackers. To...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262529866
• ISBN13: 9780262529860
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 8.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher