Exposed: How Revealing Your Data and Eliminating Privacy Increases Trust and Liberates Humanity

The modern notion of privacy is quickly evaporating due to technological advancement and social engagement. Exposed: How Revealing Your Data and Eliminating Privacy Increases Trust and Liberates Humanity argues that preparing for a post-private future is better than exacerbating the transition by attempting to delay the inevitable.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 208 pages
Publication date: 04 January 2021
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

The modern concept of privacy is rapidly becoming obsolete due to technological advancement and social engagement. With the increasing availability of data and the ease of communication, all our actions and communications are going to be revealed for everyone to see. This book, "Exposed: How Revealing Your Data and Eliminating Privacy Increases Trust and Liberates Humanity" takes a controversial and insightful look at the concept of privacy and persuasively argues that preparing for a post-private future is better than exacerbating the painful transition by attempting to delay the inevitable.

Security expert and author Ben Malisow systematically dismantles common notions of privacy and explains how:

Most arguments in favor of increased privacy are wrong. Privacy in our personal lives leaves us more susceptible to being bullied or blackmailed. Governmental and military privacy leads to an imbalance of power between citizen and state. Military supremacy based on privacy is an obsolete concept.

This book is perfect for anyone interested in the currently raging debates about governmental, institutional, corporate, and personal privacy, and the proper balance between the public and the private. It also belongs on the shelves of security practitioners and policymakers everywhere.

Weight: 276g
Dimension: 152 x 226 x 17 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781119741633