EAN: 9780807061268

I HAVE NOTHING TO HIDE - HEIDI BOGHOSIAN KARTON...

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 data collection operates in order to regain control over our
digital freedoms and our lives.Attorney and data privacy expert Heidi Boghosian unpacks
widespread myths around the seemingly innocuous nature of surveillance  sets the record
straight about what government agencies and corporations do with our personal data  and offers
solutions to take back our information. I Have Nothing to Hide is both a necessary mass
surveillance overview and a reference book. It addresses the misconceptions around tradeoffs
between privacy and security  citizen spying  and the ability to design products with privacy
protections. Boghosian breaks down misinformation surrounding 21 core myths about data privacy
including:Surveillance makes the nation safer. No one wants to spy on kids. Police don t
monitor social media. Metadata doesn t reveal much about me. Congress and the courts protect us
from surveillance. There s nothing I can do to stop surveillance.By dispelling myths related to
surveillance  this book helps readers better understand what data is being collected  who is
gathering it  how they re doing it  and why it matters.

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