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The Silicon Jungle: A Novel of Deception, Power, and Internet Intrigue
Shumeet Baluja
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Description for The Silicon Jungle: A Novel of Deception, Power, and Internet Intrigue
Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 147 x 224 x 26. Weight in Grams: 464.
What happens when a naive intern is granted unfettered access to people's most private thoughts and actions? Stephen Thorpe lands a coveted internship at Ubatoo, an Internet empire that provides its users with popular online services, from a search engine and e-mail, to social networking. When Stephen's boss asks him to work on a project with the American Coalition for Civil Liberties, Stephen innocently obliges, believing he is mining Ubatoo's vast databases to protect people unfairly targeted in the name of national security. But nothing is as it seems. Suspicious individuals surface, doing all they can to access Ubatoo's wealth ... Read more
What happens when a naive intern is granted unfettered access to people's most private thoughts and actions? Stephen Thorpe lands a coveted internship at Ubatoo, an Internet empire that provides its users with popular online services, from a search engine and e-mail, to social networking. When Stephen's boss asks him to work on a project with the American Coalition for Civil Liberties, Stephen innocently obliges, believing he is mining Ubatoo's vast databases to protect people unfairly targeted in the name of national security. But nothing is as it seems. Suspicious individuals surface, doing all they can to access Ubatoo's wealth ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
455g
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691169675
SKU
V9780691169675
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About Shumeet Baluja
Shumeet Baluja is a senior staff research scientist at Google and the inventor of over 100 patents in algorithms, data mining, privacy, and artificial intelligence.
Reviews for The Silicon Jungle: A Novel of Deception, Power, and Internet Intrigue
Co-Winner of the 2012 Mary Shelley Award for Outstanding Fictional Work, Media Ecology Association Baluja's clever, cynical debut explores the frightening possibilities of data mining... A nod to Upton Sinclair's muckraking The Jungle, which scared its readers into regulating the meat-packing industry, this lively if depressing novel suggests that computer snooping is too seductive to control, despite the consequences. ... Read more