You: For Sale - 9780128034057

You: For SaleProtecting Your Personal Data and Privacy Online\nAuthor(s): Stuart Sumner\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Syngress Media,U.S., United States\nImprint: Syngress Media,U.S.\nISBN-13: 9780128034057, 978-0128034057\nSynopsis\nEverything we do online, and increasingly in the real world, is tracked, logged, analyzed, and often packaged and sold on to the highest bidder. Every time you visit a website, use a credit card, drive on the freeway, or go past a CCTV camera, you are logged and tracked. Every day billions of people choose to share their details on social media, which are then sold to advertisers. The Edward Snowden revelations that governments - including those of the US and UK have been snooping on their citizens, have rocked the world. But nobody seems to realize that this has already been happening for years, with firms such as Google capturing everything you type into a browser and selling it to the highest bidder. Apps take information about where you go, and yo.