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Facebook and Cambridge Analytica

Schneier on Security

Harvard Business School professor Shoshana Zuboff calls it " surveillance capitalism." Equifax is one of those thousands of data brokers, most of them you've never heard of, selling your personal information without your knowledge or consent to pretty much anyone who will pay for it. Surveillance capitalism takes this one step further.

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Busted for book club? Why cops want to see what you’re reading, with Sarah Lamdan (Lock and Code S05E14)

Malwarebytes

Those “tangible things,” the law said, included “books, records, papers, documents, and other items.” What’s changed, however, is that companies that libraries have relied on for published materials and collections—Thomson Reuters, Reed Elsevier, Lexis Nexis—have reimagined themselves as big data companies.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Never Mess With A Hacker

ForAllSecure

Here are some air travel tips from The Art of Invisibility: The World's Most Famous Hacker Teaches You How to Be Safe in the Age of Big Brother and Big Data by Kevin Mitnick and Robert Vamosi. Sometimes you can use surveillance tools in your favor. It’s available on Amazon or wherever you get your books.