Means of Control 9780593443224 Byron Tau

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Titel: Means of Control
Auteur: Byron Tau
ISBN: 9780593443224
Conditie: Als nieuw

A sweeping exposé of the U.S. governments alliance with data brokers, tech companies, and advertisers, and how their efforts are reshaping surveillance and privacy as we know it

Our modern world is awash in surveillance. Most of us are dimly aware of thisever get the sense that an ad is following you around the internet?but we dont understand the extent to which the technology embedded in our phones, computers, cars, and homes is part of a vast ecosystem of data collection. Our public spaces are blanketed by cameras put up in the name of security. And pretty much everything that emits a wireless signal of any kindrouters, televisions, Bluetooth devices, chip-enabled credit cards, even the tires of every car manufactured since the mid-2000scan be and often is covertly monitored. All of this surveillance has produced an extraordinary amount of data about every citizenand the biggest customer is the U.S. government.

Wall Street Journal reporter Byron Tau has been digging deep inside the growing alliance between business, tech, and government for years, piecing together a secret story: how the whole of the internet and every digital device in the world have become a mechanism of intelligence, surveillance, and monitoring. Tau traces the unlikely tale of how the government came to view commercial data as a principal asset of national security in the years after 9/11, working with scores of anonymous companies, many scattered across bland Northern Virginia suburbs, to build a foreign and domestic surveillance capacity of such breathtaking scope that it could peer into the lives of nearly everyone on the planet. The result is a cottage industry of data brokers and government bureaucrats with one directiveget everything you canand, as Tau observes, a darkly humorous world in which defense contractors have marketing subsidiaries, and marketing companies have defense contractor subsidiaries.

Sobering and revelatory, Means of Control is our eras defining story of the dangerous grand bargain weve made: ubiquitous, often cheap technology, but at what price to our privacy?

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