Digital Doppelgangers Taking Back Control Of Your Identity
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Digital Doppelgängers: Taking Back Control of Your Identity
In a world where your identity is worth more to criminals than your credit card, protecting yourself is no longer optional—it’s essential. Every click, every login, and every online transaction leaves a digital footprint that can be exploited, manipulated, and even stolen. Digital Doppelgängers: Taking Back Control of Your Identity exposes the hidden dangers of modern identity theft and gives you the strategies to fight back before it’s too late. Cybercriminals no longer need to steal your wallet to ruin your financial life. With a few stolen details, they can open fraudulent accounts, drain your savings, commit crimes in your name, and leave you trapped in a nightmare of legal and financial recovery. Meanwhile, corporations, governments, and data brokers profit from your personal information, selling it without your consent and exposing you to constant risk. You may think you have nothing to hide, but in the digital world, your information is more valuable than ever—and it’s already out there. This book is your roadmap to reclaiming control. You’ll learn how cybercriminals operate, where your vulnerabilities lie, and the steps you must take to secure your personal data. From freezing your credit to removing your information from data brokers, from spotting phishing scams to securing your online accounts, this guide will teach you how to build an impenetrable digital defense. What you will find in this book: The latest tactics cybercriminals use to steal identities How to detect and recover from identity theft Steps to lock down your personal information Tools and techniques for digital privacy and security The future of identity theft and how to stay ahead of threats Your identity is your most valuable asset. It’s time to stop being a target and start taking back control.
Future Histories
A highly engaging tour through progressive history in the service of emancipating our digital tomorrow Shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award, Australia When we talk about technology we always talk about tomorrow and the future—which makes it hard to figure out how to even get there. In Future Histories, public interest lawyer and digital specialist Lizzie O'Shea argues that we need to stop looking forward and start looking backwards. Weaving together histories of computing and progressive social movements with modern theories of the mind, society, and self, O'Shea constructs a “usable past” that can help us determine our digital future. What, she asks, can the Paris Commune tell us about earlier experiments in sharing resources—like the Internet—in common? How can Frantz Fanon's theories of anti colonial self-determination help us build digital world in which everyone can participate equally? Can debates over equal digital access be helped by American revolutionary Tom Paine's theories of democratic, economic redistribution? What can indigenous land struggles teach us about stewarding our digital climate? And, how is Elon Musk not a future visionary but a steampunk throwback to Victorian-era technological utopians? In engaging, sparkling prose, O'Shea shows us how very human our understanding of technology is, and how when we draw on the resources of the past, we can see the potential for struggle, for liberation, for art and poetry in our technological present. Future Histories is for all of us—makers, coders, hacktivists, Facebook-users, self-styled Luddites—who find ourselves in a brave new world.
Doppelganger
#1 NATIONAL BESTELLER • Shortlisted for the 2024 Women's Prize for Non-Fiction • Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism • Shortlisted for the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize • A New York Times Notable Book • Vulture’s #1 Book of Year • A Guardian Best Ideas Book of the Year What if you woke up one morning and found you'd acquired another self—a double who was almost you and yet not you at all? What if that double shared many of your preoccupations but, in a twisted, upside-down way, furthered the very causes you'd devoted your life to fighting against? “If I had to name a single book that makes sense of these last few dark years, it would be this one.” ―Katie Roiphe, The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice) Not long ago, Naomi Klein had just such an experience—she was confronted with a doppelganger whose views she found abhorrent but whose name and public persona were similar enough to her own that many people confused her for the other. For a vertiginous moment, she lost her bearings. And then she got interested, in a reality that seems to be warping and doubling like a digital hall of mirrors. It’s happening in our politics as New Age wellness entrepreneurs turned anti-vaxxers find common cause with fire-breathing far right propagandists (all in the name of protecting “the children”). It’s happening in our culture as AI gobbles up music, paintings, fiction and everything in between and spits out imitations that threaten to overtake the originals. And it’s happening to many of us as individuals as we create digital doubles of ourselves, filtered and curated just so for all the other duplicates to see. An award-winning journalist, bestselling author, public intellectual and activist, Naomi Klein writes books that orient us in our time. She has offered essential accounts of what branding, austerity, and climate profiteering have done to our societies and souls. Now, as liberal democracies teeter on the edge, Klein takes aim at absurdist authoritarianism, using a keen sense of the ridiculous to face the doubles that haunt us. Part tragicomic memoir, part chilling reportage and cobweb-clearing analysis, Doppelganger invites readers on a wild ride, smashing through the mirror world, charting a path beyond despair towards true solidarity.