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Title: The Audacity to Spy

Subtitle: How Government, Business, and Hackers Rob Us of Privacy

Author: Ashley M. Wilson JD, Catherine Nolan

Narrator: Randal Schaffer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 14 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-11-16

Publisher: Technics Publications

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Technology

Publisher's Summary:

The Audacity to Spy, written by an attorney with an interest in privacy laws and legislation and her grandmother who is an experienced Information Analyst, reveals the ways in which your identity and personal data have been stolen by various sources. Yes, you should be concerned about the NSA and other government agencies having your phone logs and emails; but you should worry more about the insidious data brokers that are collecting information about you every time you log on to your laptop, use your cell phone, access an app, or use your GPS. Companies are collecting a variety of data about you, combining it with location information, and using it to both personalize their own services and to sell to other advertisers for behavioral marketing. Law enforcement agencies are tracking your car and insurance companies are installing devices to monitor your driving. Clerks are making copies of your credit cards. And if that wasn't enough, the FBI has reported that hackers have been discovered embedding malicious software in two million computers, opening a virtual door for criminals to rifle through users' valuable personal and financial information.

More than warning you about the ways your data can be stolen, at the end of each chapter are suggestions for limiting the amount of personal data that is available to be seized and divulged. Can you completely cut off the flow of information about yourself? The answer is no, not completely - there is already too much data out there and increasingly sophisticated ways to obtain bits and pieces. But knowing how it is collected, and by whom, gives you the power to control sensitive information and determine how much of your life you wish to expose to those more than willing to exploit it.

Members Reviews:

Important Book for Young People

An excellent overview of the government and business spying that is taking place. Well researched and well written. It is easy to read and understand and uses little jargon. Even though the spying is a serious problem, the authors are not alarmists. They present the evidence and inform as to the danger but in a way that encourages resistance and pushback rather than accepting a paralyzing fear.

Furthermore, there are useful recommendations for protection from some of the insidious intrusions on our private lives and communications. It is clear, however,that it is going to be a very difficult task to get our privacy back unless Americans can take their country back.

Strongly recommended. It is an especially important book to give to young people who seem to be unaware or uncaring of the dangers posed by uncontrolled spying.

Connecting the Dots

Before reading this book, I had been vaguely aware that data is being collected by various entities. Frequent shopper cards do not exist for the good of the consumer! I knew that tollways employ cameras to catch scofflaws. And in the back of my mind I knew that for every convenience brought to us by the internet and credit cards, there was a downside in the loss of utmost privacy as we go about our daily lives. What this book did for me was connect the dots ... point out how all that data can be tied together for exploitation by everyone from politicians to consumer packaged goods companies. The biggest shock to me was the implication of medical identity theft ...