An inside look at who's watching you, what they know and why it matters. We are being watched.
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.
1 有用 lychee 2015-10-23 08:50:59
作者真的是个很执着的人
1 有用 ANOVA 2016-12-26 22:51:28
堪称教科书式的case write-up,不愧为WSJ的staff reporter
1 有用 Don Quixote 2014-08-22 12:43:38
写得很好,认真研究了商业政府等部门对个人数据的放肆收集,并个人试验了如何逃脱搜捕网。多数人都知道臭名昭著的NSA,却不了解和不太介意cookie。在越来越网络化数据化的时代里,需要对隐私做新的定义和保护,对普通民众教育更多。痛心看到goodread的无知识字网民对隐私权的漠视。对于隐私,我们无法定价,在没有失去的时候认识不到其价值。
1 有用 ANOVA 2016-12-26 22:51:28
堪称教科书式的case write-up,不愧为WSJ的staff reporter
1 有用 lychee 2015-10-23 08:50:59
作者真的是个很执着的人
1 有用 Don Quixote 2014-08-22 12:43:38
写得很好,认真研究了商业政府等部门对个人数据的放肆收集,并个人试验了如何逃脱搜捕网。多数人都知道臭名昭著的NSA,却不了解和不太介意cookie。在越来越网络化数据化的时代里,需要对隐私做新的定义和保护,对普通民众教育更多。痛心看到goodread的无知识字网民对隐私权的漠视。对于隐私,我们无法定价,在没有失去的时候认识不到其价值。