Thomas rated No Place to Hide: 4 stars

No Place to Hide by Glenn Greenwald
No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State is a 2014 non-fiction book by American …
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No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State is a 2014 non-fiction book by American …
Some nice histories and explanations of why specific contemporary technologies include legacy biases. Much handwringing, few solutions.
The book makes a good effort to dispel the notion of technology platforms and infrastructure as detached from human labour.
The afterword(s) make grand statements about our collective impending doom and how bad things could get, but shrug off suggesting a remedy to ‘the next 50 years’.
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