The Privacy Mission: Achieving Ethical Data for Our Lives Online - Hardcover

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ANNIE MACHON is an international public speaker, writer, media commentator, and political campaigner. She is a Director of the World Ethical Data Foundation. Machon is a former MI5 agent and the European Director of the drug reform organisation, Law Enforcement Action Partnership.

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In The Privacy Mission decorated activist, speaker, and campaigner Annie Machon delivers an essential and practical treatment of contemporary data ethics. No longer an academic or niche concern for regulators and privacy enthusiasts, data ethics now has a direct and outsized impact on all our personal and professional lives.

In the book, you’ll explore crucial topics in the area of data ethics, including discussions of who controls access to the hardware and software that is increasingly used to spy on us, hack us, and farm our data. You’ll learn the answer to the question of which democratic, social, and personal threats we need to meet, mitigate, and respond to, and whether corporations can help protect us in a way that also advances their bottom line.

The Privacy Mission summarises the overarching concepts and principles of this nuanced and complex area, offering practical solutions for companies, policy-makers, and individuals trying to push back against known and unknown threats and attempting to future proof themselves against the more sinister aspects of the digital revolution.

The author presents fascinating and important perspectives on how the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the meaning of the word “privacy,” the existence of both fascism and communism, the value of a free press, and other relevant historical and recent developments shape and change how we think about data ethics.

A can’t-miss exploration of a critically relevant and impactful subject, The Privacy Mission will earn a place in the libraries of managers, executives, and business leaders at companies of all types and sizes, regulators, lawmakers, academics, researchers, and laypersons interested in the increasingly fraught world of online and digital privacy.

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In The Privacy Mission decorated activist, speaker, and campaigner Annie Machon delivers an essential and practical treatment of contemporary data ethics. No longer an academic or niche concern for regulators and privacy enthusiasts, data ethics now has a direct and outsized impact on all our personal and professional lives.

In the book, you'll explore crucial topics in the area of data ethics, including discussions of who controls access to the hardware and software that is increasingly used to spy on us, hack us, and farm our data. You'll learn the answer to the question of which democratic, social, and personal threats we need to meet, mitigate, and respond to, and whether corporations can help protect us in a way that also advances their bottom line.

The Privacy Mission summarises the overarching concepts and principles of this nuanced and complex area, offering practical solutions for companies, policy-makers, and individuals trying to push back against known and unknown threats and attempting to future proof themselves against the more sinister aspects of the digital revolution.

The author presents fascinating and important perspectives on how the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the meaning of the word "privacy," the existence of both fascism and communism, the value of a free press, and other relevant historical and recent developments shape and change how we think about data ethics.

A can't-miss exploration of a critically relevant and impactful subject, The Privacy Mission will earn a place in the libraries of managers, executives, and business leaders at companies of all types and sizes, regulators, lawmakers, academics, researchers, and laypersons interested in the increasingly fraught world of online and digital privacy.