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There is more information on the globe than previously, but who is in control? In the centre is the Establishment: government authorities, firms and powerful those who have more understanding of us, and even more vitality, than at any other time in record. Circling them is a fresh era of hackers, pro-democracy campaigners and internet activists who no more admit that the Establishment should run the show. In her gripping, revelatory new book, award-winning journalist and campaigner Heather Brooke takes us inside the info Battle, from the hackerspaces of Boston and Berlin to the UK's journalism hub and Iceland's free speech revolution; from the head office of Yahoo and Facebook to the murky world of Julian Assange and Wikileaks. On the way Brooke explores the most urgent questions of the digital time: where is the total amount between flexibility and security? Within an online world, will privacy still exist? And can the internet empower individuals, or usher in a fresh time of censorship, surveillance and oppression?