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Books on Big Data and Surveillance Capitalism— How the F*$#! it happened and what to do about it.
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items This list should be mandatory reading for everyone. We are in the middle of a huge transition that is as big as the industrial revolution. We need to take a much more active role in shaping what our future will look like. Changes are happening a lot ...
This book shows the true evil of algorithms. I think we il. This all kinda knew they were evil. This spells it out for you.
Weapons of Math Destruction
In my opinion, this is the bible on this subject. It is a dense book. It describes how we got here in detail. The amount of research that went into this book is impressive.
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
This book offers some hope. It describes a way the average citizen can fight back against the dystopian state of things. It is a short, punchy book. Easy to read.
Obfuscation
This book asks the question, why do companies get to know everything about us while we know nothing about them? How did this happen? This book will get you fired up. It really pissed me off.
The Black Box Society
Tech companies, algorithms and software have penetrated, welfare lines, child protection, homeless services and the soup kitchen. This really puts a face to the damage that is being done by big data.
Automating Inequality
One of the most respected security experts in the world spells out exactly who is collecting data, what they are collecting, who they are selling it to and why.
Data and Goliath
This is a true story about a startup that ended anonymity in public. Hill exposed them. This is the scariest book on this list.
Your Face Belongs to Us
The government isnt allowed to track you without a warrant, so it buys your location from data brokers. That should piss you off.
Means of Control
The ugly side of AI. Mines, warehouses, lowpaid workers and your harvested data. The human cost behind AI. Beautifully written and eye opening.
Atlas of AI
Veliz, an oxford philosopher, makes the case that privacy isnt about hiding, its about power. We are giving up control of our lives to strangers. Veliz tells us what to do about it.
Privacy is Power: Take Back Control of Data
The internet was born as a counterinsurgency project and surveillance isnt a bug that crept in, its by design. This is an agressive and uncomfortable thesis and it makes for a great read.
Surveillance Valley: Secret Military History
Wonder how Americans thought about privacy before the internet? We habve been fighting this fight for over a century.
The Known Citizen: History of Privacy
Noble spent years studying what search engines actually show people and the results are damning. Neutral algorithms absorb and aplify racism and sexism. Thats just the begining.
Algorithms of Oppression: Search Engines & Racism
Her research at MIT into facial recognmition software forced microsoft, Amazon and IBM to respond. This is a little different than the other books on the list. It is part memoir, part expose.
Unmasking AI: Protecting Humanity in Machines
The best book on what we tell machines to do and what they actually do. The author explains how AI learns in a way us normal people can understand.
The Alignment Problem: ML and Human Values