![]() What would once have horrified – a newspaper filled with gay interest ads delivered only to a homosexual reader – is now expected on sites such as Google and Facebook.Īngwin excels at putting this new race for data dominance in historical context. Reviewįifteen years on, we now live in a world where billions of dollars are made off the back of data collected from sites and apps where we read, chat and shop online, and hundreds of thousands of jobs depend on it. And government dragnets rely on obtaining information from the private sector,” she writes. “Government data are the lifeblood of commercial data brokers. ![]() In Dragnet Nation, the author, an award-winning investigative journalist, tackles both government and corporate mass surveillance, stressing that they are “deeply intertwined”. Meanwhile, technology companies, reeling from the dotcom crash, turned to data as their hope for more sustainable revenue and profits. government began its mass data collection efforts in earnest after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, when traditional surveillance methods failed. ![]() Two tectonic shifts that helped create the data-rich Dragnet Nation where we live today both date back to 2001, argues Julia Angwin in her powerful treatise on privacy. Book review by Hannah Kuchler Executive Summary ![]()
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