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

4.0

For anyone who ever wondered what the Snowden revelations were all about, this book provides a good intro to the landscape of contemporary digital mass surveillance, including both corporate and state varieties. Leading digital security expert Bruce Schneier penned the book in an accessible, best-seller style (with all the good and bad you'd imagine comes with that). It’s rife with pithy real-world examples, it surveys the technological, legal, and social facets of the problem, and provides something of a theoretical framework through which to understand the reality it's describing and how to fight back collectively and individually. It's certainly liberal, and at times definitely cheezy, but I wouldn't hesitate to recommend it to anyone interested in a really solid and relatively up-to-date explanation of the basics of the topic.