In this month’s #ProtonPrivacyReadingList we recommend “If It's Smart, It's Vulnerable” by #infosec expert Mikko Hypponen.

The book includes:
📚 an overview of how the Internet became what it is
🌏 discussions on the legal and geopolitical aspects of #cybersecurity
🛑 a comprehensive overview of the multitudes of threats lurking on the web

And it’s all peppered with real-life stories from Hypponen’s 3-decade-long career: https://www.ifitssmartitsvulnerable.com/

"Data is the new oil" has become a cliche, but the surveillance economy is no trivial topic.

For this edition of the #ProtonPrivacyReadingList, we're sharing a comprehensive study into big data by Wolfie Christl and Sarah Spiekermann.

The book is "Networks of Control," you can find it here: https://www.facultas.at/verlag/rws/networks_of_control

For a quick introduction to Christl's work, check out his seminar on the consequences of the commercial use of consumer data: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn2vP2j8Wao

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If you’re not a cybersecurity professional but you’re looking to dive deeper into the subject, our friend Christina Morillo has you covered.

She edited and curated “97 Things Every Information Security Professional Should Know in 2021”, authored “The Future of Security,” and has more in the works: https://www.christinamorillo.com/

Today on the #ProtonPrivacyReadingList, Carey Parker's (@FirewallDragons) "Firewalls Don't Stop Dragons."

Proton's founder and CEO, Andy Yen, said Carey's book "succeeds in making an intractable topic approachable for everyone."

Get the book here: https://firewallsdontstopdragons.com/buy-the-book/

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> Attached: 1 image This is the one that started it all. In this issue of the #ProtonPrivacyReadingList, we recommend Shoshana Zuboff's “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism”: https://publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/shoshana-zuboff/the-age-of-surveillance-capitalism/9781610395694/ . This book gave the world new vocabulary to understand how tech monopolies have changed the very nature of the relationship between businesses and customers online.

This is the one that started it all.

In this issue of the #ProtonPrivacyReadingList, we recommend Shoshana Zuboff's “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism”: https://publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/shoshana-zuboff/the-age-of-surveillance-capitalism/9781610395694/ .

This book gave the world new vocabulary to understand how tech monopolies have changed the very nature of the relationship between businesses and customers online.

Cory Doctorow of EFF writes about the future of technology in both his fiction and non-fiction works, and he’s one of the favorites among us at Proton.

For the #ProtonPrivacyReadingList, we chose
“How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism”.

It’s a critique of the business model based on harvesting and selling user data, and you can find it on the author's own blog: https://craphound.com/category/destroy/

Make sure to check some thoughts he shared with us on the future of the web: https://proton.me/blog/future-of-web

Regaining your #privacy starts with learning, so we’ve started a book recommendations series focused on privacy and security.

For entry no. 2 on the #ProtonPrivacyReadingList we’ve chosen Carissa Veliz’s “Privacy Is Power”. It discusses how we, as a society, can seize back control of our data and the power that comes with it: https://www.carissaveliz.com/books

As an intro, check our interview with Carissa here: https://proton.me/blog/carissa-veliz-data-privacy