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Privacy is one of the most urgent issues associated with information technology and digital media. This book claims that what people really care about when they complain and protest that privacy has been violated is not the act of sharing information itself—most people understand that this is crucial to social life —but the inappropriate, improper sharing of information. Arguing that privacy concerns should not be limited solely to concern about control over personal information, Helen Nissenbaum counters that information ought to be distributed and protected according to norms governing distinct social contexts—whether it be workplace, health care, schools, or among family and friends. She warns that basic distinctions between public and private, informing many current privacy policies, in fact obscure more than they clarify. In truth, contemporary information systems should alarm us only when they function without regard for social norms and values, and thereby weaken the fabric of social life.

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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.

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Dans ce monde de la sélection par des algorithmes, de la publicité ciblée et du marché des données personnelles, rester maîtres de nos actions, de nos relations, de nos goûts, de nos navigations et de nos requêtes implique d'aller au delà de la longue tradition de l'art du camouflage. Si on peut difficilement échapper à la surveillance numérique, ou effacer ses données, il est toujours possible de noyer nos traces parmi de multiples semblables, de créer nous-mêmes un brouillard d'interactions factices. Quels en sont alors les enjeux et les conséquences ? Finn Brunton et Helen Nissenbaum ayant constaté l'asymétrie de pouvoir et d'information entre usagers et plateformes dressent le bilan, proposent des actions et prennent le temps de la réflexion : pourquoi et comment reconquérir son autonomie personnelle ? Comment résister éthiquement avec les armes du faible ? Comment réfléchir ensemble à ce que l'obfuscation nous fait découvrir sur l'influence mentale exercée par les puissants du numérique ?

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