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Brunton Finn <1980-> |
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Titolo |
Obfuscation : a user's guide for privacy and protest / / Finn Brunton, Helen Nissenbaum |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts ; ; London, England : , : The MIT Press, , [2015] |
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©2015 |
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ISBN |
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9780262331319 |
0-262-33132-2 |
0-262-33131-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (x, 123 pages) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Privacy, Right of - United States |
Information technology - Social aspects - United States |
Information policy - United States |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; I. An Obfuscation Vocabulary; 1 Core Cases; 2 Other Examples; II. Understanding Obfuscation; 3 Why Is Obfuscation Necessary?; 4 Is Obfuscation Justified?; 5 Will Obfuscation Work?; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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safe, and policy makers to gather data without misusing it. --Publisher. |
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