Exploding Data
Reclaiming Our Cyber Security in the Digital Age

Michael Chertoff says Big Data is not so much a product of the internet as of globalization. It is commerce that caused the new tools of Big Data to come into being and play. They made the mountains of information saleable. But regardless of where cyber abuse began, the law has clearly not kept up,......more

Chertoff obviously has the credentials to understand the problems and potentials in the complex worlds of computing, personal data privacy, national security, and nation-state politics. The title seems to promise some solutions or strategies, but this book doesn't particularly deliver these. The book......more

I found this to be a tough read for some reason, it's not that it wasn't interesting, it's not that it was too technical, it's not that it wasn't well organized, it was just a tough slog for me. Perhaps it was frightening on a subliminal level. I loved the concept of information friction he writes ab......more

Exploding Data is published in time to serve as a wake-up to today's hundreds of millions of internet users who might have sacrificed their privacy, safety or "individual autonomy" as Michael Chertoff calls it by unwittingly releasing personal data for services and/or convenience in the modern era o......more

The topic is important and relevant. I think I came into the book with higher expectations, given the author’s background and experience. There were a lot of slow, basic parts, so perhaps I was not the intended audience. It’s a great book for introducing the discussion and understanding the nuances......more