Obfuscation: A User's Guide for Privacy and Protest

by Finn Brunton and Helen Nissenbaum

Book Overview

How we can evade, protest, and sabotage today's pervasive digital surveillance by deploying more data, not less--and why we should.

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262029731
• ISBN13: 9780262029735
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.1" x 8.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher