Every day, corporations are connecting the dots about our personal behavior--silently scrutinizing clues left behind by our work habits and Internet use. But who connects the dots about what firms are doing with all this information? Frank Pasquale exposes how powerful interests abuse secrecy for profit and explains ways to rein them in.
An exhilarating read, brimming with passion. Pasquale 'e(tm)s bold and ambitious book lifts the lid on the 'e~black box society'e(tm) by tackling a wide array of issues, from secrecy in finance to credit scoring, from search engines to automated decision-making, from institutional transparency to the relationship between government and big corporations. Writing with urgency and utter conviction, he paints a compelling'e"and devastating'e"picture of the world that we are building.
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Every day, corporations are connecting the dots about our personal behavior--silently scrutinizing clues left behind by our work habits and Internet use. But who connects the dots about what firms are doing with all this information? Frank Pasquale exposes how powerful interests abuse secrecy for profit and explains ways to rein them in.
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Hardcover
English
Harvard University Press
Jan. 5th, 2015
9780674368279
6.69 x 9.53 x 1.12 inches
0674368274
1.31 lbs
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An exhilarating read, brimming with passion. Pasquale 'e(tm)s bold and ambitious book lifts the lid on the 'e~black box society'e(tm) by tackling a wide array of issues, from secrecy in finance to credit scoring, from search engines to automated decision-making, from institutional transparency to the relationship between government and big corporations. Writing with urgency and utter conviction, he paints a compelling'e"and devastating'e"picture of the world that we are building.
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