Obfuscation : a user's guide for privacy and protest

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Label

Obfuscation : a user's guide for privacy and protest

Title remainder

a user's guide for privacy and protest

Statement of responsibility

Finn Brunton, Helen Nissenbaum

Creator

• Brunton, Finn, 1980-

Contributor

• Nissenbaum, Helen Fay

Author

• Nissenbaum, Helen Fay

Subject

• Information policy -- United States
• Information technology -- Social aspects -- United States
• Privacy, Right of -- United States

Language

eng

Summary

With Obfuscation, Finn Brunton and Helen Nissenbaum mean to start a revolution. They are calling us not to the barricades but to our computers, offering us ways to fight today's pervasive digital surveillance -- the collection of our data by governments, corporations, advertisers, and hackers. To the toolkit of privacy protecting techniques and projects, they propose adding obfuscation: the deliberate use of ambiguous, confusing, or misleading information to interfere with surveillance and data collection projects. Brunton and Nissenbaum provide tools and a rationale for evasion, noncompliance, refusal, even sabotage -- especially for average users, those of us not in a position to opt out or exert control over data about ourselves.Obfuscation will teach users to push back, software developers to keep their user data safe, and policy makers to gather data without misusing it. --Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

323.43

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography