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The Audacity to Spy, written by an attorney with an intention in privacy laws and regulations and legislation and her grandmother who is a skilled Information Analyst, reveals the ways that your personality and personal data have been taken by various resources. Yes, you ought to be worried about the NSA and other administration agencies getting your telephone logs and emails; but you should stress more about the insidious data brokerages that are collecting information about you whenever you log on to your laptop, use your cellular phone, access an app, or use your GPS. Companies are collecting a variety of data about you, combining it with location information, and utilizing it to both personalize their own services also to sell to other promoters for behavioral marketing. Law enforcement agencies are traffic monitoring your car and insurance firms are setting up devices to monitor your driving a car. Clerks are making copies of your credit cards. In case that wasn't enough, the FBI has reported that hackers have been discovered embedding harmful software in two million computer systems, opening a electronic door for criminals to rifle through users' valuable personal and financial information. More than alert you about the ways your data can be taken, by the end of each chapter are recommendations for limiting the quantity of personal data that is available to be seized and divulged. Can you completely take off the move of information about yourself? The answer is no, not completely - there has already been too much data out there and increasingly sophisticated ways to acquire equipment. But focusing on how it is gathered, and by whom, gives you the energy to control delicate information and regulate how much of your daily life you wish to expose to people willing to exploit it.