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Phoenix666 [soylentnews.org] writes:

It’s a common assumption that being online means you’ll have to part ways with your personal data and there’s nothing you can do about it [futurity.org].

Not true, according to two communication professors. In their new book, Obfuscation: A User’s Guide for Privacy and Protest [mit.edu] (MIT Press, 2015), they argue both that your privacy is being eroded through acts way, way more heinous than you might think, and that contrary to popular belief, there is something you can do about it.

Part philosophical treatise and part rousing how-to, Obfuscation reads at times as an urgent call to arms.

“We mean to start a revolution with this book,” its authors declare. “Although its lexicon of methods can be, and has been, taken up by tyrants, authoritarians, and secret police, our revolution is especially suited for use by the small players, the humble, the stuck, those not in a position to decline or opt out or exert control.”

Is obfuscation the best anti-tracking tactic?

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