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- the book can be used by beginners in the field, tracking from
basic principles to how to bend the rules, in reader-friendly
language throughout - the book is based on a popular blog which
dovetails as a fantastic companion website:
https://questionsindataviz.com/ - the author is a very experienced
and well-respected practitioner in the field, with a good-size
following on social media: https://twitter.com/theneilrichards
- the book can be used by beginners in the field, tracking from
basic principles to how to bend the rules, in reader-friendly
language throughout - the book is based on a popular blog which
dovetails as a fantastic companion website:
https://questionsindataviz.com/ - the author is a very experienced
and well-respected practitioner in the field, with a good-size
following on social media: https://twitter.com/theneilrichards
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 students' emails to stop school shootings. Cameras guard
every street corner and traffic light, and drones fly in our skies.
Databases of human information are assembled for purposes of
"training" artificial intelligence programs designed to predict
everything from traffic patterns to the location of undocumented
migrants. We're even tracking ourselves, using personal electronics
like Apple watches, Fitbits, and other gadgets that have made the
"quantified self" a realistic possibility. As Facebook's Mark
Zuckerberg once put it, "the Age of Privacy is over." But
Zuckerberg and others who say "privacy is dead" are wrong. In Why
Privacy Matters, Neil Richards explains that privacy isn't dead,
but rather up for grabs. Richards shows how the fight for privacy
is a fight for power that will determine what our future will look
like, and whether it will remain fair and free. If we want to build
a digital society that is consistent with our hard-won social
values-fairness, freedom, and sustainability-then we must make a
meaningful commitment to privacy. Privacy matters because good
privacy rules can promote the essential human values of identity,
power, freedom, and trust. If we want to preserve our commitments
to these precious yet fragile values, we will need privacy rules.
After detailing why privacy remains so important, Richards
considers strategies that can help us protect it privacy from the
forces that are working to undermine it. Pithy and forceful, this
is essential reading for anyone interested in a topic that sits at
the center of so many current problems.
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