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“I really liked this book. I wanted to choose a book about privacy. I think privacy is possibly the most concerning challenge we have with digital technologies. Privacy can be tricky because it can feel very abstract. It doesn’t feel like anything to have your data collected. It seems innocent and painless. The consequences are not always tangible or sometimes very far off in the future. This book is great because it’s written by Christopher Wylie, who was the whistleblower who exposed Cambridge Analytica. He tells the story of exactly how Cambridge Analytica got the idea to use personal data to try to sway elections and how he became part of this. He was the data analyst who made it happen, and he writes about how they built the tool and what exactly that tool could do. The book makes something very abstract and difficult to understand very tangible.” Read more...
The best books on Digital Ethics
Carissa Véliz, Philosopher
