Privacy Is Power

Why and How You Should Take Back Control of Your Data

De: Carissa Véliz

Narrado por: Rachel Perry

Every 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 the only way we can regain control of our lives and our societies. These governments and corporations have too much power, and their power stems from us - from our data. Privacy is as collective as it is personal, and it's time to take back control.

Privacy Is Power tells you how to do exactly that. It calls for the end of the data economy and proposes concrete measures to bring that end about, offering practical solutions, both for policymakers and ordinary citizens.

©2021 Carissa Véliz (P)2021 Tantor

Extremely Informative About Privacy

As a venture into understanding the importance of protecting my private data this book really helped me begin to take the steps needed to protect my data from corporations that I didn’t intend to have my private data as well as understanding how the government also has been utilizing corporate companies’ ties to our information to gain access to our private information. Our technology is evolving very quickly and it’s so important for us to realize the importance of protecting our rights to privacy.

Insight into our dystopia

Unfortunately much of what the author says is true. Kudos to this initiative of spreading the knowledge of a non fiction horror story in (current) action. Hopefully this will inspire readers to rebut us all being violated.

Gift to all your non techie friends

If your friends never understand why you preach on privacy this is the book that should be under their Christmas tree this year.

Timely and useful information.

Useful as a reminder to those in the know and a revelation to luddites and younger generations.

A glimpse into the mind of a big government privacy researcher

if you will be motivated towards privacy through long-winded anecdotes of extreme leftist ideals alone, this could be a good intro to privacy for you. if you aren't a proponent of trusting bigger government and regulating from emotion, you'll probably be disappointed. The tactical section of the book that isn't political can be summed up in a few minutes saving the reader hours of their life.