Privacy is Power

Why and How You Should Take Back Control of Your Data

Privacy is Power
Carissa Veliz
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Paperback
h199 x 128mm - 320pg
1 Jul 2021 UK
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9780552177719
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' An essential guide to one of the most pressing modern issues. ' HANNAH FRY' Essential reading for those of us who click ' agree' ten times a day. ' JONATHAN WOLFFAs surveillance creeps into every corner of our lives, Carissa Veliz exposes how our personal data is giving too much power to big tech and governments, why that matters, and what we can do about it. Have you ever been denied insurance, a loan, or a job? Have you had your credit card number stolen? Do you have to wait too long when you call customer service? Have you paid more for a product than one of your friends? Have you been harassed online? Have you noticed politics becoming more divisive in your country? You might have the data economy to thank for all that and more. The moment you check your phone in the morning you are giving away your data. Before you' ve even switched off your alarm, a whole host of organisations have been alerted to when you woke up, where you slept, and with whom. Our phones, our TVs, even our washing machines are spies in our own homes. Without your permission, or even your awareness, tech companies are harvesting your location, your likes, your habits, your relationships, your fears, your medical issues, and sharing it amongst themselves, as well as with governments and a multitude of data vultures. They' re not just selling your data. They' re selling the power to influence you and decide for you. Even when you' ve explicitly asked them not to. And it' s not just you. It' s all your contacts too, all your fellow citizens. Privacy is as collective as it is personal. Digital technology is stealing our personal data and with it our power to make free choices. To reclaim that power, and our democracy, we must take back control of our personal data. Surveillance is undermining equality. We are being treated differently on the basis of our data. What can we do? The stakes are high. We need to understand the power of data better. We need to start protecting our privacy. And we need regulation. We need to pressure our representatives. It is time to pull the plug on the surveillance economy. Insightful, terrifying, practical- Privacy is Power highlights the implications of our laid-back attitude to data and sets out how we can take back control. If you liked The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, you' ll love Privacy is Power because it provides a philosophical perspective on the politics of privacy, and offers very practical solutions, both for policymakers and ordinary citizens.
An essential guide to one of the most pressing modern issues. * Hannah Fry, author of Hello World * We didn' t see digital surveillance coming, but today it' s threatening democracy and basic freedoms. If you want to understand why privacy matters more than ever before, and how we can preserve it in an age of data grabbing, read this book. * Nigel Warburton, author of A Little History of Philosophy * A forceful call for us to tame the data economy by reclaiming our privacy . . . and our power. * Jonathan Zittrain, author of The Future of the Internet * In this bold, original, and engaging book, Carissa Veliz makes a compelling case for the revolutionary goal of reclaiming privacy from the grip of a destructive data economy. While many have lamented the ills of surveillance capitalism, Veliz' s courageous manifesto paves a clear path for regaining power--taking back our ill-gotten information from tech companies and data brokers and reinvigorating democracy in the process. * Evan Selinger, Professor of Philosophy, Rochester Institute of Technology and co-author of The Cambridge Handbook of Consumer Privacy * How much does it matter that every day we unwittingly hand over more and more of our personal data to internet giants? In this smart, stylishly written, and alarming volume Carissa Veliz argues that it matters a great deal and that we don' t have to put up with it. Essential reading for those of us who click ' agree' ten times a day. * Jonathan Wolff, author of An Introduction to Moral Philosophy *
Carissa Veliz is a Research Fellow at the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, the Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities, and Christ Church at the University of Oxford. Veliz has published articles in media such as the Guardian, The New York Times, New Statesman, and the Independent. Her academic work has been published in The Harvard Business Review, Nature Electronics, Nature Energy, and The American Journal of Bioethics, among other journals. She is the editor of the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Digital Ethics.
Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9780552177719
Published: 1 Jul 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Corgi Books
Publisher: Transworld Publishers
Format: Paperback
Height: 199mm
Width: 128mm
Spine: 19mm
Weight: 222g
Pages: 320

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