Big Data's Threat to Liberty

Surveillance, Nudging, and the Curation of Information

Henrik Saetra
Elsevier S&T
154 pages
ISBN: 9780128238066
August 2021

Big Data permeates all aspects of modern life, and while there is no shortage of potential benefits resulting from this, author Henrik Skaug Sætra argues that we must also understand the threats Big Data poses to liberty. The issues discussed in this book are related to how we are constantly under surveillance. In this book it is argued that Big Data’s threat to individual liberty is routinely misunderstood and underappreciated due to (a) vagueness resulting from the concept of liberty being used without it being defined, or (b) the use of definitions based on flawed understandings of what liberty is.