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

Written by Bruce Schneier

Narrated by Dan John Miller

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A fellow at the Harvard Center for Internet and Society, Bruce Schneier has been called "one of the world's foremost security experts" (Wired). In Data and Goliath, Schneier offers a sobering look at government/corporate surveillance and the ever-rising threat to personal privacy and freedom.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateApr 3, 2015
ISBN9781490681023
Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Capture Your Data and Control Your World

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  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    A bit boring if you're not a CISSP professional. Fails on not making it interesting for non techies.

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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Excellent book, highly recommended ?
    I enjoyed it a lot
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Good info that all should know. Schneier is good at making a very technically challenging subject understandable. Surprising the editor didn't catch that the reader didn't get the author's name right, though.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    “Data and Goliath” by Bruce Schneier. This is a good overview of the internet and privacy. The internet of things is the next frontline on the loss of privacy and the increase in surveillance over us all. I didn’t learn all that much that was new to me because I have been following this issue ever since PCs became a thing. Well worth reading though.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    A fascinating account of the way in which corporations are invading our privacy for profit at the same time governments are doing so for poorly founded security concerns. Both groups tend to see privacy and prohibitions against unreasonable search, and seizure as outmoded and even dangerous values. Schneier's well researched book documents shocking and insidious assaults on privacy on almost every page. Reading these specific incidents gives the reader a much deeper understanding of the problem than the more vague and global perspective from the mainstream media, even after the specificity of the Snowden revelations. Also helpful are the concrete methods individuals can use to defend themselves, though these are constantly changing due to new technologies such as facial recognition.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    This book is an excellent summary of the current situation of big data and internet privacy and security concerns. It is meant for an educated adult audience, but probably would make sense to a sufficiently tech-savvy teen. The book does not provide any new information, if you keep up with these kinds of issues on your own, but it is the perfect way to introduce someone to the topic without sending them a pile of jargon-heavy links. People who are concerned about their personal privacy online, the risks of "cyber-warfare", and the goings-on of the NSA would all find this book interesting. Schneier has probably maintained a popular blog for so long because he is extremely good at condensing complex issues and remaining non-alarmist. If I have a complaint it's that it is sometimes repetitive, but it may not seem that way to someone new to these ideas. It is also worth noting that the last 1/3rd of the book is all footnotes and citations, so it's not actually as long as it looks.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    This is your wake-up call about your lack of recorded data security and privacy. That's the consensus on this book (Data and Goliath, written by Bruce Schneier) from the noted writers Malcolm Gladwell, Seymour M. Hersh, Richard A. Clarke, and Steven Pinker. There was a lot even for me to learn (I've done computer network support work, and have studied the disclosures of Edward Snowden since 2013). So, how does Data and Goliath compare with 2015's other blockbuster book in this subject area, "Privacy In The Modern Age?" Author Schneier has a short chapter in the EPIC nonprofit group's "Privacy In The Modern Age," which takes a wider, deeper, and more galvanizing survey of our horrifying 21st century privacy problems and solutions. Most of those privacy problems are not discussed in Schneier's own book, due to the complexity of privacy issues. (See my LT review of Privacy In The Modern Age to understand my use here of the word "horrifying.") The focus of Data and Goliath is on our victimization by nonstop surveillance through our own data; it examines what is being collected and how that is being done. Then, in the words of Seymour Hersh, "it tells the average low-tech citizen what steps he or she can take to limit surveillance and thus fight those who are seeking to strip privacy from all of us."
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    This is a comprehensive look at the various challenges for human privacy and security in an age of ever-increasing corporate and government ability to surveil and influence us. Nothing is likely to surprise anyone who’s been reading Wired, the EFF’s blog, or similar sources for the past few years, but Schneier provides an elegant update of the truism that those who sacrifice privacy for security will end up having neither.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    If you have followed the Snowden revelations and are aware of IT privacy issues, then you aren't really part of the target audience for this book which spends a good amount of its pages on recapitulating the events. Its intended recipients are people enrolled in some introduction course on information security and privacy to create some awareness about the issues. Bruce Schneier is a noted expert and I had hoped that the book would go deeper than what his blog and columns already presented. While there is a chapter on "Solutions for the Rest of Us", the dirty truth is that collective action on an international level is needed to limit the power grab and violation of individual rights.Storing and processing information is getting cheaper and cheaper. Companies and governments demand more and more data. The mandatory US visa waiver entry form now demands that you pay by credit card, that you give an email address, that you list your employer, the names of your parents and a whole lot of other personal but not really pertinent information for a tourist visit to the United States. For this so called visa waiver program that is hard to distinguish from an actual visa application you are then gouged for a processing fee (part of which finances US tourism programs). The collected information is then supplemented by the mandatory flight information and upon entry, finger print and passport information. Combined with the NSA stack of information, the United States' mantra of "collect it all" has created a Stasi on steroids system that keeps on growing and will be used by the modern J. Edgar Hoovers to nefarious purposes.David stood an unfair chance and prevailed against expectations over Goliath (except in Malcolm Gladwell's interpretation of Goliath as a handicapped person). In the modern confrontation, Goliath has all the power and the data to crush individual liberties. The protagonists of the US Stasi see no compunction in breaking their own laws, lie to their courts and oversight committees. Up to now, only those that stood to preserve liberties have been punished. There is no battle, it is a silent massacre of the bill of rights and its amendments. The devil' bargain of the Chinese model is all too active in the West already: The state will not interfere as long as citizens act as docile consumers. I had hoped that the end of history looked different than the utopia presented in WALL-E.