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For years now, digital technologies have been exploiting our online data to control our decisions and thoughts, but enough harm has been done. To regain power, we must first protect our privacy. Carissa Véliz's Privacy Is Power (2020) is a wake-up call about the dangers of the digital age in which we live. Véliz highlights security breaches and privacy violations committed by tech giants, corporations, intelligence agencies, and governments, shedding light on the surveillance society and surveillance economy. Though she warns that the trade in private data is a ticking bomb that is likely to cause a global leak disaster sooner or later, she also sets out solutions to protect our user privacy and reclaim our personal data.
