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Discover why privacy is a counterproductive, if not obsolete, concept in this startling new book

It's only a matter of time-- the modern notion of privacy is quickly evaporating because of technological advancement and social engagement. Whether we like it or not, all our actions and communications are going to be revealed for everyone to see. Exposed: How Revealing Your Data and Eliminating Privacy Increases Trust and Liberates Humanity takes a controversial and insightful look at the concept of privacy and persuasively argues that preparing for a post-private future is better than exacerbating the painful transition by attempting to delay the inevitable. Security expert and author Ben Malisow systematically dismantles common notions of privacy and explains how:

  • Most arguments in favor of increased privacy are wrong
  • Privacy in our personal lives leaves us more susceptible to being bullied or blackmailed
  • Governmental and military privacy leads to an imbalance of power between citizen and state
  • Military supremacy based on privacy is an obsolete concept

Perfect for anyone interested in the currently raging debates about governmental, institutional, corporate, and personal privacy, and the proper balance between the public and the private, Exposed also belongs on the shelves of security practitioners and policymakers everywhere.

Table of Contents

  1. Cover
  2. Introduction
    1. The Purpose of Privacy
    2. Going to Extremes
    3. Please Indulge Me
    4. Premises
    5. How to Contact the Publisher
    6. Notes
  3. 1 Privacy Cases: Being Suborned
    1. Security Through Trust
    2. The Historic Trust Model Creates Oppression
    3. Privately Trustful
    4. Disarmed Forces
    5. Missed Application
    6. Harmfully Ever After
    7. Open Air
    8. Artifice Exemplar
    9. Notes
  4. 2 Privacy Cases: Government/National Intelligence/Military Confidentiality
    1. National Security vs. Governmental Security
    2. A Government Is Not a Nation
    3. Rationales
    4. No Net Benefit; Possible Net Negative
    5. Notes
  5. 3 Privacy and Personal Protection
    1. Your Exposure
    2. Check Yourself
    3. Take Your Medicine
    4. The Scene of the Crime
    5. You're a Celebrity
    6. Notes
  6. 4 A Case Against Privacy: An End to Shame
    1. Cultural Shame
    2. Location, Location, Location
    3. Beneficial Shame, Which Might Be Harmful
    4. Hypocrisy for Thee
    5. Notes
  7. 5 A Case Against Privacy: Better Policy/Practices
    1. Policy Based on Bad Data: US Police and Dogs
    2. Policy Based on Bad Data: The DSM
    3. Bad Data Derived from Concern for Privacy: Suicide
    4. Notes
  8. 6 A (Bad) Solution: Regulation
    1. Regulation = Destruction
    2. Legitimate Fear of the Private Sector
    3. Exceptions to the Rules
    4. Chill Out
    5. Power Outage
    6. Top Cover
    7. Now You See It …
    8. The Government Would Never Lie to Its Overseers, Right?
    9. Stressing It
    10. Notes
  9. 7 A Good Solution: Ubiquity of Access
    1. If Everybody Knows Everything, Nobody Has an Advantage
    2. Atomicity, Again
    3. An End to Crime?
    4. An End to the Need for Crime?
    5. Power Imbalance
    6. An End to Laws?
    7. Lower Costs
    8. An End to Hypocrisy
    9. An End to Bad Policy
    10. Speaking of Accurate Portrayals of Humanity …
    11. Notes
  10. 8 The Upshot
    1. Science Fiction
    2. Molecular Level
    3. Busting My Hump
    4. Troll Toll?
    5. Get Out
    6. On the Genetic Level
    7. Still Scared
    8. Notes
  11. Index
  12. End User License Agreement
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