Data For the People
How to Make Our Post-Privacy Economy Work for You

While it's interesting that the author's take on the big data is quite upbeat, personally I think we've yet to see that the digi-fishbowl isn't a comfy place to live it. Takeouts: - Agency - Transparency - Social data - Empowerment Hail to our new master: raw data and whatever crap gets crunched out of i......more

It might sound funny but​, to me, this book reads like a modern day ​Leviathan. ​Instead of discussing how citizens trade their personal freedoms for the security provided by the government (Leviathan), which limits those freedoms, this ​​author discussed how citizens today are trading privacy for t......more

3.7 stars. Memorabilia. Why there are so many former physicists among data scientists: digital behaviour of invisible people is similar to that of particles, detected by their interactions. Chimneys as technology enabling privacy (allowing to separate spaces by walls) especially after Benjamin Frank......more

As someone who works as a data analyst, this book actually covers very interesting concepts that I actually never have come across before, and I reckon that I am someone that has read quite extensively about this field. I would recommend this book for someone who wants general and yet also some slig......more