Can we stop megacorps from using and abusing our data? That ship has sailed, ex-NSA lawyer argues in new book

Can we stop megacorps from using and abusing our data? That ship has sailed, ex-NSA lawyer argues in new book

Interview Cyber Privacy: Who Has Your Data and Why You Should Care is the title of a new book from April Falcon Doss, formerly associate general counsel for intelligence law at the US National Security Agency. Doss spoke to The Register about her concerns with pervasive data collection and its potential for harm.


These days the author is chair of cybersecurity and privacy at law firm Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr in Baltimore, Maryland.


Explaining why she wrote the newly published book, Doss said: "I spent years immersed in [privacy issues] and I was constantly discovering new areas of data collection, new ways in which data is being used, new concerns for individuals, and I thought, you shouldn't have to be a data expert to understand these things."


In the book she describes how cloud computing, analytics, and algorithms have changed the privacy landscape ..

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