TY - BOOK ID - 32984377 TI - Obfuscation AU - Brunton, Finn AU - Nissenbaum, Helen Fay AU - IEEE Xplore (Online service) AU - MIT Press AU - EBSCOhost. PY - 2015 SN - 0262331314 9780262331319 9780262029735 9780262331326 0262331322 9780262331302 0262331306 0262029731 PB - Cambridge, Massachusetts [Piscataqay, New Jersey] MIT Press IEEE Xplore DB - UniCat KW - Privacy, Right of KW - Information technology KW - Information policy KW - Social aspects KW - E-books KW - INFORMATION SCIENCE/Internet Studies KW - INFORMATION SCIENCE/Technology & Policy KW - INFORMATION SCIENCE/Communications & Telecommunications UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:32984377 AB - With Obfuscation, Finn Brunton and Helen Nissenbaum mean to start a revolution. They are calling us not to the barricades but to our computers, offering us ways to fight today's pervasive digital surveillance -- the collection of our data by governments, corporations, advertisers, and hackers. To the toolkit of privacy protecting techniques and projects, they propose adding obfuscation: the deliberate use of ambiguous, confusing, or misleading information to interfere with surveillance and data collection projects. Brunton and Nissenbaum provide tools and a rationale for evasion, noncompliance, refusal, even sabotage -- especially for average users, those of us not in a position to opt out or exert control over data about ourselves. Obfuscation will teach users to push back, software developers to keep their user data safe, and policy makers to gather data without misusing it.Brunton and Nissenbaum present a guide to the forms and formats that obfuscation has taken and explain how to craft its implementation to suit the goal and the adversary. They describe a series of historical and contemporary examples, including radar chaff deployed by World War II pilots, Twitter bots that hobbled the social media strategy of popular protest movements, and software that can camouflage users' search queries and stymie online advertising. They go on to consider obfuscation in more general terms, discussing why obfuscation is necessary, whether it is justified, how it works, and how it can be integrated with other privacy practices and technologies. ER -