Industry Unbound:
The Inside Story of Privacy,
Data, and Corporate Power

 
 

Industry Unbound is …

based on nearly four years of field research inside technology companies, interviewing employees, and reviewing internal documents. It explores how companies do privacy, or what they do behind the scenes, behind the marketing campaigns. The book reveals the systematic ways in which the information industry uses various tools to undermine our privacy. Even people on the inside who think they’re privacy advocates turn out to be foot soldiers for data extraction in the end.