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Privacy Is Power
- Why and How You Should Take Back Control of Your Data
- Narrated by: Emma Gregory
- Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
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Summary
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As the data economy grows in power, Carissa Véliz exposes how our privacy is eroded by big tech and governments, why that matters and what we can do about it.
The moment you check your phone in the morning you are giving away your data. Before you've even switched off your alarm, a whole host of organisations have been alerted to when you woke up, where you slept, and with whom. As you check the weather, scroll through your 'suggested friends' on Facebook, you continually compromise your privacy.
Without your permission, or even your awareness, tech companies are harvesting your information, your location, your likes, your habits, and sharing it amongst themselves. They're not just selling your data. They're selling the power to influence you. Even when you've explicitly asked them not to. And it's not just you. It's all your contacts too.
Digital technology is stealing our personal data and with it our power to make free choices. To reclaim that power and democracy, we must protect our privacy.
What can we do? So much is at stake. Our phones, our TVs, even our washing machines are spies in our own homes. We need new regulation. We need to pressure policy-makers for red lines on the data economy. And we need to stop sharing and to adopt privacy-friendly alternatives to Google, Facebook and other online platforms.
Short, terrifying, practical: Privacy is Power highlights the implications of our laid-back attitude to data and sets out how we can take back control.
If you liked The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, you'll love Privacy is Power because it provides a philosophical perspective on the politics of privacy, and it offers a very practical outlook, both for policymakers and ordinary citizens.
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- Kenzel
- 10-09-21
Very insightful read!
The message is not alarmist by any stretch. Its informative and factual.
I love how she rounds it all off by giving very practical everyday tips on how to take back our privacy rights... One cookie consent banner at a time😏
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- frustrated academic
- 10-11-20
Accessible and Compelling
An excellent, engaging, enjoyable and compelling discussion of the risks associated with 'big data' collected by social media companies in particular. The book builds of Zuboff's ideas relating to 'surveillance capitalism' but is more accessible and easier to digest, as well as offering more practical prescriptions about how we, at individual, national and societal level, might take back control of our own data to mitigate the dystopian risks relating to surveillance capitalism.
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- Anonymous User
- 03-10-21
Privacy matters
That narrator was good. but the story too important to ignore. Books similar to this, and taking the actions described will be one of the few ways to change the course we are on.
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- Nicola
- 23-04-22
A must read for any one.
Even if your not privacy minded this book sets out exactly why you should not be trusting big tech with your data and how to get some of the power back.
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- Anonymous User
- 21-10-20
A must read book!
This a super overview of the data economy and the threat it poses to privacy. It’s wonderfully put together, making the topic relatable while empowering the listener with both knowledge and the ability to take practical action. Highly recommend!
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- Anonymous User
- 09-02-22
Made me feel highly motivated!
As someone who wants to contribute to protecting our privacy in the tech world, this book was highly motivating. I recommend it to everyone!
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- Pavel Obolensky
- 01-10-20
Excellent
Fascinating book. Veliz is very knowledgeable about the subject and writes in an engaging style. The book is quite disturbing at times and shows how much of what is wrong with the world today is due to our lack of privacy. Thankfully, it also strikes a more positive note by providing practical steps we can take to improve the situation. Absolutely essential reading.
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- VeryEasilyBored
- 24-09-21
Incredible
Fantastically well put together, coherent, information, structured, relatable. A brilliant book and genuinely eye-opening.
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- Anonymous
- 29-04-21
Fantastic - everyone should read this book
I thoroughly enjoyed reading this and I hope many others will do so too. In my view, it grips the reader from the beginning and raises a number of very valid concerns which should not be overlooked.
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- Miss R.
- 06-04-24
Must read for anyone with an internet connection!
Easy to listen book about how our valuable data is collected, stored and used - data I have given away without thinking too much about why it is needed or what happens to it.
In a world where companies increasingly collect data you wouldn’t normally allow them to have, Carissa Véliz outlines some steps you can take to protect you and your family.
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