Cyber Privacy

Who Has Your Data and Why You Should Care

By: April Falcon Doss

Narrated by: Chloe Cannon

We live in an era of unprecedented data aggregation, and it's never been more difficult to navigate the trade-offs between individual privacy, personal convenience, national security, and corporate profits. Technology is evolving quickly, while laws and policies are changing slowly.

You shouldn't have to be a privacy expert to understand what happens to your data. April Falcon Doss, a privacy expert and former NSA and Senate lawyer, has seen this imbalance in action. In Cyber Privacy, Doss demystifies the digital footprints we leave in our daily lives and reveals how our data is being used - sometimes against us - by the private sector, the government, and even our employers and schools. She explains the trends in data science, technology, and the law that impact our everyday privacy. She tackles big questions: how data aggregation undermines personal autonomy, how to measure what privacy is worth, and how society can benefit from big data while managing its risks and being clear-eyed about its cost.

It's high time to rethink notions of privacy and what, if anything, limits the power of those who are constantly watching, listening, and learning about us.

©2020 April Falcon Doss (P)2020 Tantor

Data privacy from different angles

if you are in the data privacy field, this is a must for you

Book Worthy of Joe Biden Admin Privacy Ethics

Privacy is a dense topic on the one hand legal, compliance, etc, and squishy on the other hand ethics, politics etc. So when I say, it was a comical read, there is a bit of sarcasm in that comment.
First, it was a treat to realize that April also read the book Writing Creative Nonfiction By: Tilar J J. Mazzeo , The Great Courses, as I did. In the book, Writing Creative Nonfiction, the author discusses how you can essentially look at a picture, or video, extract specific details to support your biases, and dump substantive contextual information so that you can write a story that is "bulletproof" in that no one can say that you lied. April is obviously advanced in creative non-fiction, so it made me smile to hear how she chose to exercise those skills.
April associates every negative example of privacy with "those conservatives", and then dox those "Right Wingers", and then when it comes to the next administration i.e. "barack hussein obama" April doesn't mention that but refers to them as "follow-on administrative bodies" or something similar. You see how I just did that, I mentioned conservatives in the general sense and called out Obama in the specific sense. April can say, well I mentioned the Obama administration's approval of FISA, but she didn't say Obama, and said Bush. (I'm no bush fan either!) Tons of examples like that, on and on salted throughout the creative non-fiction. Well, that is a small glimpse of what April does, but the polar opposite of the names I just named.
I realize I don't do April's creative non-fiction justice with my example, but I'm just trying to give you a sense and flavor of what made me smile.
I kept listening and listing and wondered when April would write the letters S-N-O-W-D-E-N, as in Edward Snowden, the guy who exposed you and the NSA and all of their illegal survivance methods against US Citizens and the World at large. Not a peep, lol. If you are an NSA agent and writing a book on privacy and don't have SNOWDEN in the first chapter, almost all privacy street cred is in the toilet lol smh... It was just before the chapter when April goes TDS on us (those that would actually read/listen to this book haha), when I was thinking I'm going to bet that April is a high appointment in the Biden administration; everything points to that in the book. As if the book was part of April's career launch at the expense of basic human morals. Sure enough, she went TDS, so funny and predictable, which kept reinforcing my hunch. I later checked her current creds... General Counsel of NSA, L-M-A-0!!!
Again, nice creative non-fiction. There are very serious topics referenced in the book, and the performance was good, but April's Privacy Street Cred is an "empty star", not even one star. As of this review, Members of the European Parliament do not want to extend the adequacy decision to the U.S., urging the rejection of it. In layman's terms, The EU knows about NSA and doesn't think EU citizens should be spied on. US citizens should think about that. April, you are the reason why the EU doesnt' have trust in the US privacy!
You have all of the ambitions of lucifer, with fewer principles. The spin of this book makes me dizzy! You are the reason we need privacy! A Book Worthy of Joe Biden Admin Privacy Ethics.