The silicon jungle : a novel of deception, power, and internet intrigue / Shumeet Baluja.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baluja, Shumeet, 1971-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Data mining--Fiction.

Data mining.

World Wide Web--Fiction.

World Wide Web.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (351 p.)

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

What 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 e-mail, to social networking. When Stephen's boss asks him to work on a project with the American Coalition for Civil Liberties, Stephen innocently obliges, believing he is mining Ubatoo's 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 Ubatoo's wealth of confidential information. This need not require technical wizardry-simply knowing how to manipulate a well-intentioned intern may be enough. The Silicon Jungle is a cautionary fictional tale of data mining's 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 desires-all ready to be exploited.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Endings

Anklets

Anthropologists in the Midst

Mollycoddle

Touchpoints

Checking In

Working 9 to 4

Predicting the Future and 38 Needles

Contact

Two Geeks in a Pod

An Understatement

Euphoria and Diet Pills

To Better Days

Marathon

The Life and Soul of an Intern

Candid Cameras

Episodes

Liberal Food and Even More Liberal Activism

Subjects

Newsworthy

Patience

Hypergrowth

Little Pink Houses

Truth, Lies, and Algorithms

Negotiations and Herding Cats

The Jenny Discovery

I Dream of Jenny July

A Five-Step Program

Over-Deliver

A Life Changed in Four Phone Calls

Giving Thanks

A Drive through the Country

Control

A Tale of Two Tenures

Prelude to Pie

The Yuri Effect

Apple Pie

Thoughts Like Butterflies

Core-Relations

Collide

Control, Revisited

Fables of the Deconstruction

Control, Foregone

Foundations

One Way

Sebastin's Friends

A Tinker by Any Other Name

When It Rains

I Am a Heartbeat

What I Did This Summer

A Permanent Position

For Adam

Faith

Counting by Two

Disconnect

Sahim

Epilogue: Beginnings

Acknowledgments

Know More

The Privacy Policy of a few organizations, in their own words

References

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9786612976391

9781282976399

1282976397

9781400838141

1400838142

OCLC:

719383398