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Information is power, and the time is now for digital liberation. Access Rules mounts a strong and hopeful argument for how informational tools at present in the hands of a few could instead become empowering machines for everyone. By forcing data-hoarding companies to open access to their data, we can reinvigorate both our economy and our society. Authors Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Thomas Ramge contend that if we disrupt monopoly power and create a level playing field, digital innovations can emerge to benefit us all.

In July 2010, Wikileaks published Cablegate, one of the biggest leaks in the history of the US military, including evidence for war crimes and torture. In the aftermath, Julian Assange, the founder and spokesman of Wikileaks, found himself at the center of a media storm, accused of hacking and later sexual assault. He spent the next seven years in asylum in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, fearful that he would be extradited to Sweden to face the accusations of assault and then sent to US.

Amassing unimaginable amounts of personal data, giants like Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Apple - once symbols of American ingenuity and freedom - have become a techno-oligarchy with overwhelming economic and political power. Decades of unchecked data collection have given Big Tech more targeted control over Americans’ daily lives than any company or government in the world. In The Tyranny of Big Tech, Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri argues that these mega-corporations - controlled by the robber barons of the modern era - are the gravest threat to American liberty in decades.

An Introduction to Celebrity Protection and Touring offers a peek behind the scenes of the close protection industry, more commonly known as the bodyguard business. More than the stereotypical bullet blocker, the modern protection specialist is a skilled practitioner who utilizes verbal judo much more than its physical counterpart. With real world advice, tactics and techniques on how to identify and defeat potential attackers, as well as covering everything from dealing with overzealous fans, to hyper-aggressive paparazzi, this audiobook offers proven solutions.

In this extremely timely, important, and compelling audiobook, Daniel Wagner redefines what terrorism has become in the 21st century. Unlike more conventional types of terrorism, in which the perpetrator seeks recognition and reveals his or her identity, with virtual terrorism, the identity of the person, group, or government responsible for acts of terror is deliberately hidden in an anonymous, borderless, and lawless world.

The top-secret world that the government created in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks has become so enormous, so unwieldy, and so secretive that no one knows how much money it costs, how many people it employs or exactly how many agencies duplicate work being done elsewhere. The result is...

Our ability to make choices is fundamental to our sense of ourselves as human beings, and essential to the political values of freedom-protecting nations. Whom we love; where we work; how we spend our time; what we buy; such choices define us in the eyes of ourselves and others, and much blood...

An invaluable guide to understanding how the internet has broken our brains—and what we can do to fix it. "Vivid and unforgettable.” ―Jonathan Haidt, New York Times bestselling author of The Righteous Mind The original internet was not designed to make us upset, distracted, confused, and...

Our secrets can weigh heavily upon us. Yet the burden of secrecy rarely stems from the work it takes to keep a secret hidden. Rather, the weight of our secrets comes from carrying them alone. Whether we are motivated to protect our reputation, a relationship, a loved one's feelings or some personal or professional goal, one thing is clear: holding back some part of our inner world is often lonely and isolating. But it doesn't have to be.

A riveting investigation into how a restive region of China became the site of a nightmare Orwellian social experiment—the definitive police state—and the global technology giants that made it possible Blocked from facts and truth, under constant surveillance, surrounded by a hostile alien...

Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado is the leader of Venezuela’s democratic movement and a key advocate for freedom in Latin America. Having won the opposition primaries in 2023 with an overwhelming 92 percent of the vote, she was arbitrarily disqualified by the Nicolás Maduro regime from participating in the 2024 presidential elections. Machado proceeded to unite the country around the call for dignity and freedom, leading the national campaign for Edmundo González that finally obtained 67 percent of the vote.

One day in the spring of 2013, a box appeared outside a fourth-floor apartment door in Brooklyn. The recipient, who didn't know the sender, only knew she was supposed to bring this box to a friend, who would ferry it to another friend. Thus the biggest national security leak of the digital era was launched via the US Postal Service. This is just one of the odd, ironic details that emerges from the story of how Jessica Bruder and Dale Maharidge, two experienced journalists but security novices got drawn into the Edward Snowden story as behind-the-scenes players. 

Politiassistent Nelly Birkebæk og hendes teenagesøn Matthias forlader Aarhus for et nyt og forhåbentlig roligere liv i den midtjyske provinsby Hedeborg. Nelly har købt en faldefærdig villa i et af Hedeborgs pænere kvarterer, hvor hendes genbo, den imødekommende – og lidt for nysgerrige...

Koskov, en russisk viceadmiral med ansvar for den russiske ubådseskadre i Østersøen, hopper af i Kairo, og det bliver Carl Hamilton, der i hemmelighed skal eskortere ham til Stockholm, inden sovjetiske agenter får muligheden for at slå ham ihjel. Carls instrukser er entydige: Få for...

Politiassistent Nelly Birkebæk har fundet fodfæste på den midtjyske hede i provinsbyen Hedeborg, hvor hun er blevet en del af hverdagen ved lokalpolitiet, og hendes teenagesøn trives. Byen rystes, da Irene Grindsted på 86 år findes dræbt i sit soveværelse på en stille villavej. Over...

Sandheden ligger i DNA’et. Men hvor meget tør vi stole på det? Da en ung kvinde findes myrdet, rystes både politi og befolkning. Et enkelt DNA-spor på gerningsstedet bliver nøglen til efterforskningen, men da sagen folder sig ud, afslører den langt mere end blot en morder. Et team med en...

“Den forkerte muhammedtegner – og andre nuancer af karikaturkrisen” tegner et portræt af bladtegner Lars Refn, som er en af de 12 tegnere, der bidrog med en satiretegning til Jyllands-Posten i 2005. Refns bidrag var dog ikke en tegning af profeten Muhammed, som avisen bad om, men derimod...

Hvem Søren vil ikke gerne forstå Kierkegaard? af Henny Mikkelsen er en lettilgængelig og overskuelig indføring i Søren Kierkegaards filosofi. Perfekt til læsere af for eksempel The School of Life, Svend Brinkmann og moderne dannelseslitteratur. Forord af sognepræst Sørine Gotfredsen...

Brug livet klogt Hvordan får jeg min teenagedatter til at gå til livet med appetit og glæde fremfor med bekymring og ængstelse? Hvordan får jeg hende til at tænke over, hvordan man skaber et liv med mening? Kan jeg gøre noget for at undgå, at hun havner i nogle af de alvorlige livskriser...

The inside story of one woman’s quest to bring transparency and accountability to Big Tech, by the Facebook whistleblower who is determined to help us all retake control of our lives. In 2021, when news outlets feasted on “the Facebook Files,” Frances Haugen went public as the former...