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Past Based Present eBook Series

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  • From ThinThread to AI-Driven Surveillance State: A Sad Psychological Dilemma

    Past Based Present, #1

    by A ONE ...
    Series Book 1 - Past Based Present
    From ThinThread to AI-Driven Surveillance State: A Sad Psychological Dilemma:WHITE PAPERThis white paper is an unflinching, deeply researched exposé on the evolution of surveillance—from the whistleblowing of NSA veteran William Binney to the rise of artificial intelligence as the new engine of mass data capture. It lays out the architecture of modern intelligence systems with surgical precision, ... Read more

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  • Unmasking AI

    My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines

    by Joy Buolamwini ...
    **NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “The conscience of the AI revolution” (Fortune) explains how we’ve arrived at an era of AI harms and oppression, and what we can do to avoid its pitfalls.“AI is not coming, it’s here. If we answer the beautiful call inside these pages, we can decide who we are going to be and how we’re going to use technology in service of what it means to be fully human.”—Brené Brown, #1 ... Read more

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  • Obfuscation

    A User's Guide for Privacy and Protest

    by Finn Brunton, Helen Nissenbaum ...
    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, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Why Privacy Matters

    by Neil Richards ...
    A much-needed corrective on what privacy is, why it matters, and how we can protect in an age when so many believe that the concept is dead. Everywhere we look, companies and governments are spying on us--seeking information about us and everyone we know. Ad networks monitor our web-surfing to send us "more relevant" ads. The NSA screens our communications for signs of radicalism. Schools track ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

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  • Privacy is Power

    Why and How You Should Take Back Control of Your Data

    by Carissa Veliz ...
    An Economist Book of the YearEvery minute of every day, our data is harvested and exploited… It is time to pull the plug on the surveillance economy.Governments and hundreds of corporations are spying on you, and everyone you know. 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.Reclaiming privacy is ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • "I Have Nothing to Hide"

    And 20 Other Myths About Surveillance and Privacy

    by Heidi Boghosian ...
    Series Book 14 - Myths Made in America
    An accessible guide that breaks down the complex issues around mass surveillance and data privacy and explores the negative consequences it can have on individual citizens and their communities.No one is exempt from data mining: by owning a smartphone, or using social media or a credit card, we hand over private data to corporations and the government. We need to understand how surveillance and ... Read more

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  • Technology Is Not Neutral

    A Short Guide to Technology Ethics

    by Stephanie Hare ...
    Series series Perspectives
    It seems that just about every new technology that we bring to bear on improving our lives brings with it some downside, side effect or unintended consequence. These issues can pose very real and growing ethical problems for all of us. For example, automated facial recognition can make life easier and safer for us – but it also poses huge issues with regard to privacy, ownership of data and even ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Exposed

    Desire and Disobedience in the Digital Age

    by Bernard E. Harcourt ...
    Social media compile data on users, retailers mine information on consumers, Internet giants create dossiers of who we know and what we do, and intelligence agencies collect all this plus billions of communications daily. Exploiting our boundless desire to access everything all the time, digital technology is breaking down whatever boundaries still exist between the state, the market, and the ... Read more

    $30.29 USD

  • Surveillance After Snowden

    by David Lyon ...
    In 2013, Edward Snowden revealed that the NSA and its partners had been engaging in warrantless mass surveillance, using the internet and cellphone data, and driven by fear of terrorism under the sign of ’security’.In this compelling account, surveillance expert David Lyon guides the reader through Snowden’s ongoing disclosures: the technological shifts involved, the steady rise of invisible ... Read more

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  • The Culture of Surveillance

    Watching as a Way of Life

    by David Lyon ...
    From 9/11 to the Snowden leaks, stories about surveillance increasingly dominate the headlines. But surveillance is not only 'done to us' – it is something we do in everyday life. We submit to surveillance, believing we have nothing to hide. Or we try to protect our privacy or negotiate the terms under which others have access to our data. At the same time, we participate in surveillance in order ... Read more

    $19.00 USD

  • Database Nation

    The Death of Privacy in the 21st Century

    by Simson Garfinkel ...
    Fifty years ago, in 1984, George Orwell imagined a future in which privacy was demolished by a totalitarian state that used spies, video surveillance, historical revisionism, and control over the media to maintain its power. Those who worry about personal privacy and identity--especially in this day of technologies that encroach upon these rights--still use Orwell's "Big Brother" language to ... Read more

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  • Transparent Lives

    Surveillance in Canada

    Edited by Colin J. Bennett, Kevin D. Haggerty, David Lyon, Valerie Steeves ...
    Although most Canadians are familiar with surveillance cameras and airport security, relatively few are aware of the extent to which the potential for surveillance is now embedded in virtually every aspect of our lives. We cannot walk down a city street, register for a class, pay with a credit card, hop on an airplane, or make a telephone call without data being captured and processed. Where does ... Read more

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