{"id":1517,"date":"2021-03-08T12:00:02","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T17:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/hsslibrary\/?p=1517"},"modified":"2021-03-08T13:49:12","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T18:49:12","slug":"privacy-surveillance-and-big-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/hsslibrary\/privacy-surveillance-and-big-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Redpath Book Display: Privacy, Surveillance, and Big Data"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There has been a proliferation of writing in the last decade or so about Big Tech, Big Data, privacy and surveillance issues, and the societal impacts of algorithms, AI, and social media monopolies, and for good reason. As Silicon Valley continues to significantly influence and shape how we live, work, and communicate with each other, we must think critically about the rise and concentration of these corporate powers. How much of our lives are truly private and what does this mean for how we lead our lives? What are our data privacy rights and how is our information being used? The books on this month&#8217;s book display examine these questions and much more. Visit the virtual <a href=\"https:\/\/libraryguides.mcgill.ca\/redpathbookdisplay\/privacy\">Redpath Book Display<\/a> to browse print books, e-books, and documentaries on a wide range of subjects in this area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See also the <a href=\"https:\/\/libraryguides.mcgill.ca\/privacy\">Privacy Resources LibGuide<\/a> to discover tools to enable better privacy practices in your day-to-day life, articles, websites, and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/hsslibrary\/files\/2021\/03\/big-data-4240406_1920-1024x576-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1518\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/hsslibrary\/files\/2021\/03\/big-data-4240406_1920-1024x576-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/hsslibrary\/files\/2021\/03\/big-data-4240406_1920-1024x576-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/hsslibrary\/files\/2021\/03\/big-data-4240406_1920-1024x576-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/hsslibrary\/files\/2021\/03\/big-data-4240406_1920-1024x576-1-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Data Tunnel, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/illustrations\/big-data-data-tunnel-data-highway-4240406\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pixabay<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have any questions please email <a href=\"mailto:hssl.library@mcgill.ca\">hssl.library@mcgill.ca<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There has been a proliferation of writing in the last decade or so about Big Tech, Big Data, privacy and surveillance issues, and the societal impacts of algorithms, AI, and social media monopolies, and for good reason. As Silicon Valley &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/hsslibrary\/privacy-surveillance-and-big-data\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[119,25,117,118],"class_list":["post-1517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-displays","tag-big-data","tag-book-display","tag-privacy","tag-surveillance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/hsslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/hsslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/hsslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/hsslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/hsslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1517"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/hsslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1532,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/hsslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517\/revisions\/1532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/hsslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/hsslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/hsslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}