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Obfuscation

a user's guide for privacy and protest

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An edition of Obfuscation (2015)

Obfuscation

a user's guide for privacy and protest

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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 safe, and policy makers to gather data without misusing it. --Publisher

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The MIT Press
Language
English
Pages
123

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Obfuscation: a user's guide for privacy and protest
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
323.4/3
Library of Congress
JC596.2.U5 B78 2015, JC596.2.U5

The Physical Object

Pagination
x, 123 pages
Number of pages
123

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Open Library
OL27197798M
Internet Archive
obfuscationusers0000brun
ISBN 10
0262029731
ISBN 13
9780262029735
LCCN
2015009379
OCLC/WorldCat
907512525

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