Freedom to Think: The Long Struggle to Liberate Our Minds
Book by Susie Alegre
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Publisher : Atlantic Books (July 7, 2022) Language : English Hardcover : 400 pages ISBN-10 : 1838951520 ISBN-13 : 978-1838951528 Item Weight : 1.36 pounds Dimensions : 6.25 x 1.3 x 9.25 inches Best Sellers Rank: #291,669 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #33 in Privacy & Surveillance in Society #382 in Civil Rights & Liberties (Books) , Without a moment's pause, we share our most intimate thoughts with trillion-dollar tech companies. Their algorithms categorize us and jump to conclusions about who we are. They even shape our everyday thoughts and actions - from who we date to how we vote. But this is just the latest front in an age-old struggle. Part history and part manifesto, Freedom to Think charts the history and importance of our most basic human right: freedom of thought. From Galileo to Nudge Theory to Alexa, human rights lawyer Susie Alegre explores how the powerful have always sought to get inside our heads, influence how we think and shape what we buy. Providing a bold new framework to understand how our agency is being gradually undermined, Freedom to Think is a ground-breaking and vital charter for taking back our humanity and safeguarding our reason. Read more
REVIEW
This is a book that tried to do too much, whose author’s reach exceeded her grasp. Her argument seems to be to restrain big tech and countries use of data and surveillance by using human rights law, instead of ethics or codes of practice. All the more to protect human dignity, autonomy and particularly freedom of thought and opinion. She reveals the danger of ‘real time bidding’ by online ad companies and includes various anecdotes on intrusions of privacy by big tech and countries. She liberally quotes from various UN Human Rights Council mandate holders statements. There is no clear centre to this book apart from a general warning about losing our humanity to uncontrolled technology. Ultimately we are left with a choice of whether we want to live in a authoritarian surveillance state, a libertarian democratic surveillance state or something in between, championed by the liberal, data protecting Europeans. But Alegre wants more than just data protection, but protection of the integrity of our minds. She offers no real policy recommendations or suggestions of a framework on how best we can counter the digital onslaught on our privacy, humanity and freedom to think without being spied on or pried into or brain hacked.
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