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

Author:Bruce Schneier
Language: eng
Format: mobi, azw3, epub, pdf
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2015-03-02T05:00:00+00:00

allowed academics to mine their data: Here are two examples. Lars Backstrom et al. (5 Jan 2012), “Four degrees of separation,” arXiv:1111.4570 [cs.SI], http://arxiv.org/abs/1111.4570. Russell B. Clayton (Jul 2014), “The third wheel: The impact of Twitter use on relationship infidelity and divorce,” Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking 17, http://www.cs.vu.nl/~eliens/sg/local/cyber/twitter-infidelity.pdf.

Facebook can predict: The experiment correctly discriminates between homosexual and heterosexual men in 88%

of cases, African Americans and Caucasian Americans in 95% of cases, and Democrats and Republicans in 85% of cases. Michal Kosinski, David Stillwell, and Thore Graepel (11 Mar 2013), “Private traits and attributes are predictable from digital records of human behavior,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Early Edition, http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2013/03/06/1218772110.

The company knows you’re engaged: Sara M. Watson (14 Mar 2012), “I didn’t tell Facebook I’m engaged, so why is it asking about my fiancé?” Atlantic, http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/03/i-didnt-tell-facebook-im-engaged-so-why-is-it-asking-about-my-fianc/254479.

gay before you come out: Katie Heaney (19 Mar 2013), “Facebook knew I was gay before my family did,”

BuzzFeed, http://www.buzzfeed.com/katieheaney/facebook-knew-i-was-gay-before-my-family-did.

may reveal that to other people: Geoffrey A. Fowler (13 Oct 2012), “When the most personal secrets get outed on Facebook,” Wall Street Journal,

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10000872396390444165804578008740578200224.

it could get you killed: For a while in 2014, there was a flaw in the gay hookup app Grindr that would reveal the location of gay men anywhere in the world, including countries like Uganda, Russia, and Iran. John Aravosis (26

Aug 2014), “Popular gay dating app Grindr faces creepy security breach allegations,” America Blog, http://americablog.com/2014/08/grindr-users-unwittingly-giving-away-exact-location.html.

when the ads are on track: Sara M. Watson (16 Sep 2014), “Ask the decoder: Stalked by socks,” Al Jazeera, http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/9/16/the-decoder-stalkedbysocks.html.

targeted at us specifically: Sylvan Lane (13 Aug 2014), “16 creepiest targeted Facebook ads,” Mashable, http://mashable.com/2014/08/13/facebook-ads-creepy.

data mining is a hot technology: Guy Gugliotta (19 Jun 2006), “Data mining still needs a clue to be effective,”

Washington Post, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/18/AR2006061800524.html.

Phillip Segal (28 Mar 2011), “Data mining is dumbed down intelligence,” Ethical Investigator, http://www.ethicalinvestigator.com/internet/data-mining-is-dumbed-down-intelligence. Ogi Ogas (8 Feb 2013),

“Beware the big errors of ‘Big Data,’” Wired, http://www.wired.com/2013/02/big-data-means-big-errors-people.

go backwards in time: Barton Gellman and Ashkan Soltani (18 Mar 2014), “NSA surveillance program reaches

‘into the past’ to retrieve, replay phone calls,” Washington Post, http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-surveillance-program-reaches-into-the-past-to-retrieve-replay-phone-calls/2014/03/18/226d2646-ade9-11e3-a49e-76adc9210f19_story.html.

Untangling this sort of wrongdoing: US Department of Justice (16 Dec 2009), “Credit Suisse agrees to forfeit $536 million in connection with violations of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act and New York State law,” http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2009/December/09-ag-1358.html. Office of the District Attorney, New York County (10 Dec 2012), “Standard Chartered Bank reaches $327 million settlement for illegal transactions,”

http://manhattanda.org/node/3440/print. Office of the District Attorney, New York County (30 Jun 2014), “BNP

Paribas Bank pleads guilty, pays $8.83 billion in penalties for illegal transactions,”

http://manhattanda.org/node/4884/print.

blood taken from riders years earlier: Scott Rosenfield (23 Jul 2013), “Top 3 finishers in 1998 Tour test positive,” Outside Online, http://www.outsideonline.com/news-from-the-field/Top-3-Finishers-in-1998-Tour-Test-Positive.html.

a database called XKEYSCORE: Glenn Greenwald (21 Jul 2013), “XKeyscore: NSA tool collects ‘nearly everything a user does on the internet,’” Guardian, http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/31/nsa-top-secret-program-online-data. US National Security Agency (8 Jan 2007), “XKEYSCORE (training slides),”

https://www.eff.org/document/2013-07-31-guard-xkeyscore-training-slides (page 2).

One called MARINA: James Ball (30 Sep 2013), “NSA stores metadata of millions of web users for up to a year, secret files show,” Guardian, http://www.

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