Cory Doctorow

Canadian-British science fiction author, journalist and digital-rights activist; author of novels such as Little Brother, a supporter of Creative Commons, and long-time contributor to Boing Boing.

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  1. 1. Little Brother & Homeland

    A tech-savvy teenage activist is swept up in a post-attack crackdown and uses hacking, cryptography, and grassroots organizing to challenge invasive surveillance and abusive state power; the follow-up continues his story as he builds privacy tools, exposes collusion between government and corporations, and confronts the personal and legal costs of resisting pervasive monitoring. The two books explore civil liberties, digital rights, and how ordinary people can fight back when security measures threaten freedom.

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  2. 2. How To Destroy Surveillance Capitalism

    A sharp critique of the advertising-driven internet that explains how companies harvest and trade personal data to manipulate behavior, entrench monopolies, and harm privacy, democracy, and workers; it traces the technical and economic mechanics of profiling and attention markets and then offers a practical, activist agenda—stronger antitrust enforcement, bans or strict limits on targeted advertising, interoperability and data portability, privacy and consent protections, open protocols and decentralized alternatives, and design- and policy-based fixes—to reclaim user agency and rebuild an internet that serves people rather than surveillance-based profit.

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