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How to resist Amazon and why : the fight for local economics, data privacy, fair labor, independent bookstores, and a people-powered future / by Caine, Danny,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."When a company's workers are literally dying on the job, when their business model relies on preying on local businesses and even their own vendors, when their CEO is the richest person in the world while their workers make low wages with impossible quotas... wouldn't you want to resist? Danny Caine, owner of Raven Book Store in Lawrence, Kansas has been an outspoken critic of the seemingly unstoppable Goliath of the bookselling world: Amazon. In this book, he lays out the case for shifting our personal money and civic investment away from global corporate behemoths and to small, local, independent businesses. Well-researched and lively, his tale covers the history of big box stores, the big political drama of delivery, and the perils of warehouse work. He shows how Amazon's ruthless discount strategies mean authors, publishers, and even Amazon themselves can lose money on every book sold. And he spells out a clear path to resistance, in a world where consumers are struggling to get by. In-depth research is interspersed with charming personal anecdotes from bookstore life, making this a readable, fascinating, essential book for the 2020s"--
Subjects: Essays.; Case studies.; Amazon.com (Firm); Bezos, Jeffrey; Small business.; Independent bookstores.; Pay equity.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Every screen on the planet : the war over TikTok / by Baker-White, Emily,author.;
"The story of the most effective attention algorithm ever invented, and the superpower struggle to control it. Every Screen on the Planet is the first major book on one of the most dramatic business stories of our time. Touching on politics, finance, data, and technology, the struggle over TikTok has enormous implications for our information landscape and the technological cold war between the United States and China. Emily Baker-White’s engrossing narrative charts TikTok’s rise from obscurity into the world’s most valuable startup, led by its ambitious founder, Zhang Yiming—arguably the father of the modern recommendation algorithm. Zhang’s products reshaped the global internet from a place where you searched for information to one where information came to you. TikTok seemed to know its users in an almost spooky way, provoking wonder and delight. People were hooked. “We intend to become ubiquitous,” a new-hire training video said, to put TikTok “on every screen on the planet." But virtually everything about TikTok’s users—their interests, locations, and even their unspoken desires—was accessible to staff in Beijing. After Baker-White, a Harvard-trained lawyer and investigative reporter, revealed that Chinese engineers could access Americans’ private information, a team of employees used the app to track her location and attempt to expose whistleblowers. This incident triggered an ongoing criminal investigation and escalated the US government’s fight against Chinese tech. TikTok was the first Chinese app to become a US juggernaut, and lawmakers soon recognized its potential for surveillance and propaganda—and the threat it might pose in the hands of their rivals. Yet even as hawks in Congress gained support to ban the app, the White House was secretly negotiating for unprecedented control over its information stream. In 2025, when President Donald Trump declined to enforce the so-called ban law, TikTok seemed to complete a miraculous corporate escape. It retained its influence, profits, and power, but now operated at the pleasure of two strongmen: China’s Xi Jinping and Trump himself."--Publisher description.Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: TikTok (Firm).; Social media.; Social media; Whistle blowers.; Privacy, Right of; Mobile apps; Data privacy.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 10
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Cyber privacy : who has your data and why you should care / by Doss, April Falcon,1967-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."April Falcon Doss, a cybersecurity and privacy expert with experience working for the NSA and the US government, explores the most common types of data being collected about individuals today and delve into how it is being used-sometimes against us-by the private sector, the government, and even our employers and schools"--
Subjects: Privacy, Right of; Data protection; Computer security;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Code 6 [sound recording] : a novel / by Grippando, James,1958-author.(CARDINAL)351204; Lakin, Christine,1979-narrator.(CARDINAL)787884;
Performed by Christine Lakin.Kate Gamble is the daughter to the CEO of a private data integration company who works with the CIA. After her boyfriend is kidnapped, the ransom is "Code 6," her father's top secret technology.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Thrillers (Fiction); Women dramatists; Children of suicide victims; Fathers and daughters; Kidnapping; Ransom; Conspiracies; Data privacy; Technology; Man-woman relationships;
Available copies: 8 / Total copies: 8
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Oversight of computer matching to detect fraud and mismanagement in government programs : hearings before the Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management of the Committee on Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, Ninety-seventh Congress, second session, December 15 and 16, 1982. by United States.Congress.Senate.Committee on Governmental Affairs.Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management.(CARDINAL)284027;
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Administrative agencies; Administrative agencies; Fraud; Privacy, Right of;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
On-line resources: Suggest title for digitization;
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The computer invasion / by Norback, Craig T.(CARDINAL)138357;
Subjects: Privacy, Right of; Records; Records;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Computers, health records, and citizen rights / by Westin, Alan F.(CARDINAL)143835; Institute for Computer Sciences and Technology.(CARDINAL)142057;
Bibliography: pages 311-340.
Subjects: Medical records; Medical records; Privacy, Right of;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The bell ringers [sound recording] a novel / by Porter, Henry,1953-; Lee, John.;
The death of a former British head of intelligence triggers an all-out resistance movement led by the Bell Ringers against an out-of-control, security-obsessed state.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Political fiction.; Spy stories.; Suspense fiction.; Data mining; Intelligence officers; Privacy, Right of;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Code 6 [large print] : a novel / by Grippando, James,1958-author.(CARDINAL)351204;
"Aspiring playwright, Kate Gamble, is struggling to launch a script she's been secretly researching her entire life, mostly at the family dinner table. Her father is Christian Gamble, CEO of Buck Technologies, a private data integration company whose clients include the CIA and virtually every counter-terrorism organization in the Western World. Kate's father adores her, and a play about the dark side of Big Data would be the ultimate betrayal in his eyes. But Kate is compelled to tell this story--not only as an artist exploring the personal information catastrophe that affects us all, but as a daughter trying to understand her mother's apparent loss of purpose, made even more disturbing by the suicide note she left behind: I did it for Kate. Then Patrick Battle comes back into her life, changing everything she has ever thought about her play, her father, and her mother's tragic death. Patrick is a childhood friend, but he is now Buck's golden boy with security clearance to the company's most sensitive projects. When Buck comes under investigation by the Justice Department and Patrick suddenly goes missing, Kate doesn't know who to trust. A phone call confirms her worst nightmare: Patrick has been kidnapped, and the ransom demand is "Code 6"--the most secret and potentially dangerous technology her father's company has ever developed. Kate's fight to bring Patrick home safely reveals a conspiracy and cover up that may implicate one of the most powerful executives in the tech industry, while the development of Kate's play unleashes family secrets and the demons behind her mother's cryptic final note. The two paths converge in explosive fashion, leading to a shocking and terrifying discovery that puts Kate and Patrick in the crosshairs of forces who will stop at nothing to control Code 6"--
Subjects: Large print books.; Thrillers (Fiction); Fiction.; Data privacy; Technology; Dramatists; Big data; Data integration (Computer science); Mothers; Fathers and daughters; Kidnapping; Women dramatists; Children of suicide victims; Ransom; Conspiracies; Man-woman relationships; Mothers.;
Available copies: 42 / Total copies: 45
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The death of privacy / by Rosenberg, Jerry Martin.(CARDINAL)162444;
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Privacy, Right of; Public records; Electronic data processing;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
On-line resources: Suggest title for digitization;
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