Data and Goliath The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World

Brazil’s president: Juan Forero (17 Sep 2013), “NSA spying scandal spoils dinner at the White House for Brazil’s president,” Washington Post, http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/nsa-spying-scandal-spoils-dinner-at-the-whitehouse-for-brazils-president/2013/09/17/24f5acf6-1fc5-11e3-9ad0-96244100e647\_story.html.

12: Principles

if our personal spaces and records: These issues are explored in these books. Daniel Solove (2011), Nothing to Hide: The False Tradeoff between Privacy and Security, Yale University Press, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract\_id=1827982. Susan Landau (2011), Surveillance or Security? The Risks Posed by New Wiretapping Technologies, MIT Press, http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/surveillance-or-security.

The government basically said: Of course, costs can affect different people in different ways. Politicians fear that they’ll get blamed for future attacks, so they have an incentive to push for lots of visible security measures. Citizens, especially members of unpopular political and religious groups, become the obvious targets for surveillance, but lack a strong, coherent voice to fight back. And large security programs are expensive, benefiting government contractors and the politicians they support.

Tor is an excellent example: Electronic Frontier Foundation (28 Nov 2012), “How to help protect your online anonymity using Tor,” https://www.eff.org/sites/default/files/filenode/Basic\_Tor\_Intro\_Guide\_FNL.pdf.

has been unsuccessful: US National Security Agency (8 Jan 2007), “Tor Stinks,” http://cryptome.org/2013/10/nsator-stinks.pdf.

both the NSA and the GCHQ: Leo Kelion (22 Aug 2014), “NSA and GCHQ agents ‘leak Tor bugs,’ alleges developer,” BBC News, http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-28886462.

13: Solutions for Government