Greenwald’s book for the lowdown on the Snowden revelations.
The book conflates government and commercial data collection: Sorta true. The main criticisms of this book fall into these main categories:ġ. The remaining part of the book details her attempts, sometimes laughable attempts, to avoid getting caught up in the electronic dragnet like the rest of us chumps. I’ve been reading through a lot of books in the area of security of privacy, and I think the first couple of chapters contain one of the best summaries of the way we are being tracked, especially by the commercial/advertising side of things. I was skimming the other reviews on Goodreads before writing my own, and I was really surprised to read so many negative-to-lukewarm ones because I thought this was a really well-written book that made a lot of good points.
Her book is a cautionary tale for all of us, with profound implications for our values, our society, and our very selves. Appalled at such a prospect, Angwin conducts a series of experiments to try to protect herself, ranging from quitting Google to carrying a "burner" phone, showing how difficult it is for an average citizen to resist the dragnets' reach. In a world where we can be watched in our own homes, where we can no longer keep secrets, and where we can be impersonated, financially manipulated, or even placed in a police lineup, Angwin argues that the greatest long-term danger is that we start to internalize the surveillance and censor our words and thoughts, until we lose the very freedom that makes us unique individuals.
In Dragnet Nation, award-winning investigative journalist Julia Angwin reports from the front lines of America's surveillance economy, offering a revelatory and unsettling look at how the government, private companies, and even criminals use technology to indiscriminately sweep up vast amounts of our personal data. And the federal government, we recently learned, has been conducting a massive data-gathering surveillance operation across the Internet and on our phone lines. Our smartphones and cars transmit our location, enabling us to know what's in the neighborhood but also enabling others to track us. We see online ads from websites we've visited, long after we've moved on to other interests. An inside look at who's watching you, what they know and why it matters.
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