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Review: Data and Goliath by Bruce Schneier

  • Christy Quinn
  • Strife
  • June 5, 2015

Bruce Schneier, Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Capture Your Data and Control Your World. New York, NY: W.W. Norton., 2015. Pp. 400. £ 17.99, ISBN: 978-0-393-24481-6.

If you’re not familiar with the Information Security community in the IT industry, it’s worth knowing that Bruce Schneier has earned the reputation of a prophet, sage and action hero combined. As a renowned cryptologist and technologist, Schneier has been a leading critic of the US government’s attempts to limit the global spread of encryption and recently of the NSA’s ‘bulk collection’ program of communication records of US citizens, following the disclosures by Edward Snowden in 2013. …

Surveillance, Bulk Data Collection and Intelligence: an Interview with Bruce Schneier

  • Christy Quinn
  • Strife
  • June 5, 2015

Bruce Schneier is an internationally renowned security technologist and the author of 13 books—including ‘Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World’—as well as hundreds of articles, essays, and academic papers. Schneier is a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, a program fellow at the New America Foundation’s Open Technology Institute, a board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an Advisory Board Member of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, and the Chief Technology Officer at …

Sidebar photo of Bruce Schneier by Joe MacInnis.