The Silicon Jungle: A Novel of Deception, Power, and Internet Intrigue,New

The Silicon Jungle: A Novel of Deception, Power, and Internet Intrigue,New

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A suspenseful story about the dangers of unknowingly revealing our most intimate thoughts and actions onlineWhat happens when a naive intern is granted unfettered access to people's most private thoughts and actions? Stephen Thorpe lands a coveted internship at Ubatoo, an Internet empire that provides its users with popular online services, from a search engine and email, to social networking. When Stephens boss asks him to work on a project with the American Coalition for Civil Liberties, Stephen innocently obliges, believing he is mining Ubatoos vast databases to protect people unfairly targeted in the name of national security. But nothing is as it seems. Suspicious individuals surface, doing all they can to access Ubatoos wealth of confidential information. This need not require technical wizardrysimply knowing how to manipulate a wellintentioned intern may be enough.The Silicon Jungle is a cautionary fictional tale of data minings promise and peril. Baluja raises ethical questions about contemporary technological innovations, and how minute details can be routinely pieced together into rich profiles that reveal our habits, goals, and secret desiresall ready to be exploited.

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