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Название: Data Independence: Reclaiming Privacy in an Era of Evolving Tech Автор: Wes Chaar Издательство: Advantage Media Group Год: 2024 Страниц: 176 Язык: английский Формат: epub (true) Размер: 10.1 MB
In the digital age, our personal data has become a valuable commodity, sought after by corporations, organizations, and governments alike. Data Independence: Reclaiming Privacy in an Era of Evolving Tech is a groundbreaking book by data scientist Wes Chaar that exposes the hidden world of the data economy and offers a revolutionary solution to reclaim our data rights.
With over twenty years of experience in the data space, Chaar reveals some of the hidden techniques used to collect, analyze, and monetize our personal information without our complete knowledge or understanding. From our daily activities, online behavior and purchases, and social media interactions to location tracking and biometric data, every aspect of our lives is being monitored and compiled into a digital dossier, which provides significant insights into an individual and monetization opportunities for corporations.
Data Independence is more than just a revelation—it’s a revolution to reclaim your rights. Chaar introduces the Personal Data Vault Key, a tool concept that puts individuals in control of their data. By leveraging the principles of data consent, control, and currency, everyone is in charge of their data. This creates transparency, accountability, protection, equality, and respect between you and the entities you allow to use your data assets on your terms. The Personal Data Vault Key empowers users to decide who accesses their data, how it's used, and even how to monetize it.
Through compelling case studies, expert insights, and practical guidance, Data Independence demystifies the complex world of data privacy and provides readers with the knowledge and tools they need to protect their data power. Chaar's engaging and accessible writing style makes even the most technical concepts easy to understand, while his passionate advocacy for privacy rights is both inspiring and empowering.
Whether you're concerned about your offline and online privacy, curious about the inner workings of the data economy, or seeking to leverage your personal data for your own benefit, Data Independence is an essential read. It's a call to action for a data revolution—one that puts the power back in the hands of the people.
When we log onto our social media networks, or onto various shopping sites, or our health care portal, or any of the countless technological interactions and tools and apps we use each day, we often are shown an updated privacy policy (in fine print). For most of us, it’s an inconvenient pop-up. We scroll down quickly and hit “accept,” agreeing to incursions on our date privacy without really being sure of what it is we’re agreeing to.
Even when we don’t agree—when we forbid the use of cookies and other data-tracking tools—the average person assumes that act of clicking “don’t accept” is enough, when, in fact, blocking cookies does virtually nothing to ensure your privacy. What I know from my years of experience in this world is that we are all—each and every one of us—being tracked with methods that invade our privacy in ways most of us cannot even begin to realize (though this book will hopefully make this invasion of privacy apparent!).
But with all this talk of privacy, and before we move on in this book, we should come to a baseline understanding of what privacy is, why we claim to value it—and how it has eroded as we moved more and more of our existence into an online space.
Join Wes Chaar on this transformative journey and discover how to unlock the power of personal data control. Your data future starts here.
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