Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World

By Bruce Scheier

Ebook

Yet another book telling me I have no privacy. Cant wait to get into it.

.5% Not only.can they track where you are and where you've been but, "researchers were able to use this data to predict where people would be 24 hours later, to within 20 meters."

1% "Sun Microsystems’ CEO Scott McNealy said it plainly way back in 1999: “You have zero privavy anyway, get over it."

3% "Companies like 23andMe hope to use genomic data from their customers to find genes associated with disease, leading to new and highly profitable cures." Thats if the Federal Govetment wll ever lt us have our own DNA data. So far the havent want to See Topol's The Patint Will See You Now for the details.

3.2% "Raytheon is planning to fly a blimp over Washington, DC, and Baltimore in 2015 to test its ability to track “targets”—presumably vehicles—on the ground, in the water, and in the air.

See for yourself

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/12/17/billion-dollar-surveillance-blimp-launch-maryland/

3.4% "By 2010, we as a species were creating more data per day than we did from the beginning of time until 2003."

3.6% "Austrian law student Max Schrems. In 2011, Schrems demanded that Facebook give him all the data the company had about him. This is a requirement of European Union (EU) law. Two years later, after a court battle, Facebook sent him a CD with a 1,200-page PDF: not just the friends he could see and the items on his newsfeed, but all of the photos and pages he’d ever clicked on and all of the advertising he’d ever viewed." Everything you ever did on Facebook is saved.

4.8% "Another device allows me to see all the data on someone else’s smartphone—either iPhone or Android—assuming I can get my hands on it. “Read text messages even after they’ve been deleted. See photos, contacts, call histories, calendar appointments and websites visited. Even tap into the phone’s GPS data to find out where it’s been.” Only $120."

6.4 % "On the Internet, surveillance is ubiquitous. All of us are being watched, all the time, and that data is being stored forever. This is what an information-age surveillance state looks like, and it’s efficient beyond Bentham’s wildest dreams."

books:

Eric Schmidt Jared Cohen The New Digital Age.